I haven't seen this reported in the mailing lists anywhere. My apologies if it
has. We are having problems with the cvs client running in Cygwin 1.7. There
is a section of code in src/client.c
> temp_filename = xmalloc (strlen (filename) + 80);
> #ifdef USE_VMS_FILENAMES
> /* A VMS rename of "blah.dat" to "foo" to implies a
> destination of "foo.dat" which is unfortinate for CVS */
> sprintf (temp_filename, "%s_new_", filename);
> #else
> #ifdef _POSIX_NO_TRUNC
> sprintf (temp_filename, ".new.%.9s", filename); <----- Here's the problem
> #else /* _POSIX_NO_TRUNC */
> sprintf (temp_filename, ".new.%s", filename);
> #endif /* _POSIX_NO_TRUNC */
> #endif /* USE_VMS_FILENAMES */
The _POSIX_NO_TRUNC variable is defined in cygwin 1.7, and not defined in
cygwin 1.5, so in cygwin 1.7, the code goes down the path where the
temp_filename is the first 9 characters of the original filename preceded by
'.new.' The problem occurs when the 9th character in the filename is a dot. Eg,
'abcdefgh.txt'. The temp_filename becomes '.new.abcdefgh.' Unfortunately, when
checking out to a Samba share, or other network shares that try to be CIFS
compatible, a trailing . is invalid in a filename. The temporary file either
doesn't get created, or gets created but with the trailing dot truncated. The
checkout then fails with 'file not found' errors.
A simple fix would be to add a valid character after the .9s, eg
sprintf (temp_filename, ".new.%.9s~", filename);
Can something like this be done and a new package released?
William Crosmun
BIRT
Email: crosmun_will...@emc.com
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