On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Sven Köhler wrote: > i'm trying to use cygwin's cvs in server-mode for another application > I get the following error, but on a linux-system, everything is fine! > > E cannot mkdir /tmp/cvs-serv784/. > error No such file or directory
As Brian said, this was already reported. The ball is now in the CVS maintainer's court: <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-01/msg01383.html>. > Of course, cvs isn't using the mkdir command i guess, but it's using > some mkdir()-call and i guess that cygwin returns the wrong return-code > and actually cvs would ignore the "file exists" error-code, but it gets > the "no such file or directory" error-code. > So that results in a broken cvs :-( That's exactly right (see line 1002 of server.c). > Is this a bug in cygwin? Yes. Looks like Cygwin is too hasty in assigning the error number: Linux only returns ENOENT if the directory doesn't already exist, but Cygwin will always return it for a trailing dot argument. The same with rmdir, where it would always return EINVAL, even if the directory doesn't exist (in which case Linux returns ENOENT). FWIW, POSIX only specifies an action for rmdir() on a trailing dot (EINVAL). I didn't post earlier because I was trying to test a patch (a variant of CGF's, though his is cleaner). I'm glad this is fixed. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac"
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