On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 02:20:21PM -0400, Jason Hellenthal wrote:
> When using svn 1.8 I have come across a situation where when it is used 
> pointing to a symlink that refers to a working directory that a update will 
> either segfault or exit prematurely and leave a lock held on the working 
> directory that the symlink points to.
> 
> This leaves you with one choice but to run cleanup on the referenced actual 
> working directory which was AFAIK never the case for any version below 1.8.
> 
> Not sure if this is a problem with svn or FreeBSD itself but thought I would 
> report the characteristics in case it's noticed elsewhere.
> 
> Details:
> Using UFS
> FreeBSD 8-STABLE i386 as of this date.
> 
> In the directory...
> cd /exports/usr
> ln -s src8 src
> svn up /exports/usr/src

Known bug/problem in Subversion, not FreeBSD:

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=r1496007

Previous discussion:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2013-June/251842.html

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