See the README file for information on how to report bugs (and what will happen to your bug reports if you do). The following is a list of some of the known bugs. It may or may not be comprehensive. We would dearly love for people to volunteer to help us keep it up to date (for starters, if you notice any inaccuracies, please let bug-cvs know as described in README). There are some other reported bugs in MINOR-BUGS; the difference, at least in theory, is that those bugs are less serious. * For platform-specific information (in some cases including known bugs), see README.VMS, windows-NT/README, or os2/README. There is no similar file for the unix-like operating systems (not yet, at least). This file also might contain some platform-specific bugs. * Exporting binary files on non-unix clients with "cvs export" does not work. The workaround is to use "cvs checkout" instead. If you are thinking of fixing this, check out the comment "For cvs export, assume it is a text file." in client.c. * Wrappers do not work client/server, and there are a variety of other bugs and annoyances with wrappers. * Some people have reported seeing the message "dying gasps from %s unexpected" (where %s is the name of your server) when using client/server CVS. One person reported that this had to do with using pserver and trying to run a program not in the PATH (which is set up by inetd, I think) from one of the *info scripts. But noone has carefully tracked this down (is it caused by something in the server writing to stdout or stderr when it shouldn't? But then wouldn't the "dying gasps" message be preceded by "warning: unrecognized response `%s' from cvs server"?). * "make remotecheck" sometimes fails on test 187a3 with cvs server: in directory .: cvs [server aborted]: *PANIC* administration files missing This does not happen every time. (-kingdon, Nov 96, Red Hat linux 3.0.3). * The -m option to "cvs add" does not work with client/server CVS. CVS will accept the option, but it won't actually set the file's description. * cvs update walks into a user's work directory if there's a directory of the same name in the repository even if the user's directory doesn't yet have a CVS admin sub-directory. This can greatly confuse users who try to add the same directory at nearly the same time. * 'cvs admin' dumped core when files were missing from working directory (and from the repository)? * `cvs checkout -d nested/dir/path ' just doesn't work. The simpler version -- `cvs checkout -d single-dir ' works, however. * The following bug was reported against CVS 1.9: Create a module named test with a file named test in it. cactus:sfavor> cvs get test cvs checkout: Updating test U test/test cactus:sfavor> cd test cactus:sfavor> cvs get test cvs checkout: cannot chdir to test: Not a directory cvs checkout: ignoring module test Exit 1 cactus:sfavor> cvs update cvs update: Updating . rcs.c:2139: failed assertion `rev == NULL || isdigit (*rev)' Abort (core dumped) Exit 134 * pcl-cvs doesn't like it when you try to check in a file which isn't up-to-date. The messages produced by the server perhaps don't match what pcl-cvs is looking for. * From: billr@mpd.tandem.com (Bill Robertson) Subject: Problem with rtag and the -D option Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 10:53:29 -0600 (CST) I have been trying to use the -D option to specify a date for tagging, but rtag does not recognize the -D option. It is documented to do so and I've tested the use of -D with cvs update and cvs diff and it works fine there. * Defining RELATIVE_REPOS is said to not work with client/server CVS. * From: "Charles M. Hannum" To: info-cvs@prep.ai.mit.edu Subject: Still one more bug Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 17:01:15 -0500 mycroft@duality [1]; cd /usr/src/lib/libc mycroft@duality [1]; cvs diff -c2 '-D1 day ago' -Dnow cvs server: Diffing . cvs server: Diffing DB cvs [server aborted]: could not chdir to DB: No such file or directory mycroft@duality [1]; `DB' is an old directory, which no longer has files in it, and is removed automatically when I use the `-P' option to checkout. This error doesn't occur when run locally. P.S. Is anyone working on fixing these bugs? * From: Roland McGrath To: Cyclic CVS Hackers Subject: weird bug Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 16:41:41 -0500 X-Windows: Even your dog won't like it. I just noticed some droppings on my disk from what must be a pretty weird bug in remote CVS. In my home directory on a repository machine I use, I find: drwxr-xr-x 4 roland staff 512 Mar 7 14:08 cvs-serv28962 drwxr-xr-x 4 roland staff 512 Mar 7 14:11 cvs-serv28978 drwxr-xr-x 4 roland staff 512 Mar 7 15:13 cvs-serv29141 OK, so these are leftover cruft from some cvs run that got aborted. Well, it should clean up after itself, but so what. The last one is pretty dull; the real weirdness is the contents of the first two directories. duality 77 # ls -RF cvs-serv28978/ CVS/ cvs-serv28978/ cvs-serv28978/CVS: Entries Repository cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978: arpa/ cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa: CVS/ cvs-serv28978/ cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/CVS: Entries Repository cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978: assert/ cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert: CVS/ cvs-serv28978/ cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/CVS: Entries Repository cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978: bare/ cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare: CVS/ cvs-serv28978/ cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/CVS: Entries Repository cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978: conf/ cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978/conf: CVS/ cvs-serv28978/ cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978/conf/CVS: Entries Repository cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978/conf/cvs-serv28978: crypt/ cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978/conf/cvs-serv28978/crypt: CVS/ cvs-serv28978/ cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978/conf/cvs-serv28978/crypt/CVS: Entries Repository cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978/conf/cvs-serv28978/crypt/cvs-serv28978: csu/ cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978/conf/cvs-serv28978/crypt/cvs-serv28978/csu: CVS/ cvs-serv28978/ cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978/conf/cvs-serv28978/crypt/cvs-serv28978/csu/CVS: Entries Repository cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978/conf/cvs-serv28978/crypt/cvs-serv28978/csu/cvs-serv28978: ctype/ cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978/conf/cvs-serv28978/crypt/cvs-serv28978/csu/cvs-serv28978/ctype: CVS/ cvs-serv28978/ [...] ls: cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978/conf/cvs-serv28978/crypt/cvs-serv28978/csu/cvs-serv28978/ctype/cvs-serv28978/dirent/cvs-serv28978/elf/cvs-serv28978/gnu/cvs-serv28978/gnulib/cvs-serv28978/grp/cvs-serv28978/hurd/cvs-serv28978/hurd/hurd/cvs-serv28978/inet/cvs-serv28978/inet/arpa/cvs-serv28978/inet/netinet[...]/cvs-serv28978/posix/cvs-serv28978/posix/glob/cvs-serv28978/posix/gnu/cvs-serv28978/posix/sys/cvs-serv28978/protocols/cvs-serv28978/pwd/cvs-serv28978/resolv/cvs-serv28978/resolv/arpa/cvs-serv28978/resolv/sys/cvs-serv28978/resource/cvs-serv28978/resource/sys/cvs-serv28978/rpc/cvs-serv28978/setjmp/cvs-serv28978/signal/cvs-serv28978/signal/sys/cvs-serv28978/socket/cvs-serv28978/socket: File name too long cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978/conf/cvs-serv28978/crypt/cvs-serv28978/csu/cvs-serv28978/ctype/cvs-serv28978/dirent/cvs-serv28978/elf/cvs-serv28978/gnu/cvs-serv28978/gnulib/cvs-serv28978/grp/cvs-serv28978/hurd/cvs-serv28978/hurd/hurd/cvs-serv28978/inet/cvs-serv28978/inet/arpa/cvs-serv28978/inet/netinet[...]/cvs-serv28978/posix/glob/cvs-serv28978/posix/gnu/cvs-serv28978/posix/sys/cvs-serv28978/protocols/cvs-serv28978/pwd/cvs-serv28978/resolv/cvs-serv28978/resolv/arpa/cvs-serv28978/resolv/sys/cvs-serv28978/resource/cvs-serv28978/resource/sys/cvs-serv28978/rpc/cvs-serv28978/setjmp/cvs-serv28978/signal/cvs-serv28978/signal/sys/cvs-serv28978/socket/cvs-serv28978: * From: Roland McGrath To: Cyclic CVS Hackers Subject: bizarre failure mode Date: Tue, 7 Mar 95 14:17:28 -0500 This is pretty weird: CVS_SERVER='TMPDIR=. /usr/local/bin/cvs' ../cvs-build/src/cvs update -q cvs [server aborted]: could not get working directory: Result too large [Exit 1] asylum 29 % grep 'Result too large' /usr/include/sys/errno.h #define ERANGE 34 /* Result too large */ Now, getcwd fails with ERANGE when the buffer is too small. But I don't know why that would be the case; I don't think there are exceptionally long directory names involved. It would be robust to notice ERANGE and use a bigger buffer. But I suspect something weirder is going on. The repository in question in duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu:/gd4/gnu/cvsroot/libc. Send me a PGP-signed message if you want the password to use the machine where the problem showed up.