1See the Cederqvist manual (cvs.texinfo) for information on how to 2report bugs (and what will happen to your bug reports if you do). 3 4The following is a list of some of the known bugs. It may or may not 5be comprehensive. We would dearly love for people to volunteer to 6help us keep it up to date (for starters, if you notice any 7inaccuracies, please let bug-cvs know as described in the Cederqvist 8manual). There are some other reported bugs in MINOR-BUGS; the 9difference, at least in theory, is that those bugs are less serious. 10 11 12* For platform-specific information (in some cases including known 13bugs), see README.VMS, windows-NT/README, or os2/README. There is no 14similar file for the unix-like operating systems (not yet, at least). 15This file also might contain some platform-specific bugs. 16 17 18* Need more work on the procedure for fixing it if a binary file is 19accidentally added in text mode (sanity.sh test cases, better 20documentation, probably update and/or admin -kb should update 21the -k setting in CVS/Entries). 22 23 24* Wrappers (-t/-f) do not work client/server, and there are a variety of other 25bugs and annoyances with wrappers. 26 27 28* If your login name contains a space or various other characters 29(particularly an issue on Windows), CVS will have trouble (it will 30write invalid RCS files, probably). The fix would be to have CVS 31change such characters to underscores before writing them to the RCS 32file. Furthermore, the LOGNAME or USER environment variables usually 33won't override the system login name, so this can be hard to work 34around. 35 36 37* If you specify the -w global option to client/server CVS, it only 38overrides a CVSREAD environment variable set on the client, not a 39CVSREAD variable which was set on the server (for example, in .bashrc 40when the server was run via rsh). The fix of course will be to 41provide a "Option-read-write" request which sends -w, in addition to 42"Global_option -r" which sends -r. 43 44 45* "make remotecheck" sometimes fails on test 187a3 with 46 cvs server: in directory .: 47 cvs [server aborted]: *PANIC* administration files missing 48This does not happen every time. (-kingdon, Nov 96, Red Hat linux 3.0.3). 49 50 51* The -m option to "cvs add" does not work with client/server CVS. 52CVS will accept the option, but it won't actually set the 53file's description. 54 55 56* cvs update walks into a user's work directory if there's a directory 57 of the same name in the repository even if the user's directory 58 doesn't yet have a CVS admin sub-directory. This can greatly confuse 59 users who try to add the same directory at nearly the same time. 60 61 62* 'cvs admin' dumped core when files were missing from working directory 63 (and from the repository)? 64 65 66* The following bug was reported against CVS 1.9: 67 68 Create a module named test with a file named test in it. 69 70 cactus:sfavor> cvs get test 71 cvs checkout: Updating test 72 U test/test 73 cactus:sfavor> cd test 74 cactus:sfavor> cvs get test 75 cvs checkout: cannot chdir to test: Not a directory 76 cvs checkout: ignoring module test 77 Exit 1 78 cactus:sfavor> cvs update 79 cvs update: Updating . 80 rcs.c:2139: failed assertion `rev == NULL || isdigit (*rev)' 81 Abort (core dumped) 82 Exit 134 83 84 85* pcl-cvs doesn't like it when you try to check in a file which isn't 86 up-to-date. The messages produced by the server perhaps don't match 87 what pcl-cvs is looking for. 88 89 90* From: billr@mpd.tandem.com (Bill Robertson) 91 Subject: Problem with rtag and the -D option 92 Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 10:53:29 -0600 (CST) 93 94 I have been trying to use the -D option to specify a date for tagging, but 95 rtag does not recognize the -D option. It is documented to do so and I've 96 tested the use of -D with cvs update and cvs diff and it works fine there. 97 98* From: "Charles M. Hannum" <mycroft@ai.mit.edu> 99 To: info-cvs@prep.ai.mit.edu 100 Subject: Still one more bug 101 Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 17:01:15 -0500 102 103 mycroft@duality [1]; cd /usr/src/lib/libc 104 mycroft@duality [1]; cvs diff -c2 '-D1 day ago' -Dnow 105 cvs server: Diffing . 106 cvs server: Diffing DB 107 cvs [server aborted]: could not chdir to DB: No such file or directory 108 mycroft@duality [1]; 109 110 `DB' is an old directory, which no longer has files in it, and is 111 removed automatically when I use the `-P' option to checkout. 112 113 This error doesn't occur when run locally. 114 115 P.S. Is anyone working on fixing these bugs? 116 117 118* From: Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.ai.mit.edu> 119 To: Cyclic CVS Hackers <info-cvs@prep.ai.mit.edu> 120 Subject: weird bug 121 Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 16:41:41 -0500 122 X-Windows: Even your dog won't like it. 123 124 I just noticed some droppings on my disk from what must be a pretty weird 125 bug in remote CVS. 126 127 In my home directory on a repository machine I use, I find: 128 129 drwxr-xr-x 4 roland staff 512 Mar 7 14:08 cvs-serv28962 130 drwxr-xr-x 4 roland staff 512 Mar 7 14:11 cvs-serv28978 131 drwxr-xr-x 4 roland staff 512 Mar 7 15:13 cvs-serv29141 132 133 OK, so these are leftover cruft from some cvs run that got aborted. 134 Well, it should clean up after itself, but so what. 135 136 The last one is pretty dull; the real weirdness is the contents of the 137 first two directories. 138 139 duality 77 # ls -RF cvs-serv28978/ 140 CVS/ cvs-serv28978/ 141 142 cvs-serv28978/CVS: 143 Entries Repository 144 145 cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978: 146 arpa/ 147 148 cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa: 149 CVS/ cvs-serv28978/ 150 151 cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/CVS: 152 Entries Repository 153 154 cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978: 155 assert/ 156 157 cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert: 158 CVS/ cvs-serv28978/ 159 160 cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/CVS: 161 Entries Repository 162 163 cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978: 164 bare/ 165 166 cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare: 167 CVS/ cvs-serv28978/ 168 169 cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/CVS: 170 Entries Repository 171 172 cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978: 173 conf/ 174 175 cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978/conf: 176 CVS/ cvs-serv28978/ 177 178 cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978/conf/CVS: 179 Entries Repository 180 181 cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978/conf/cvs-serv28978: 182 crypt/ 183 184 cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978/conf/cvs-serv28978/crypt: 185 CVS/ cvs-serv28978/ 186 187 cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978/conf/cvs-serv28978/crypt/CVS: 188 Entries Repository 189 190 cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978/conf/cvs-serv28978/crypt/cvs-serv28978: 191 csu/ 192 193 cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978/conf/cvs-serv28978/crypt/cvs-serv28978/csu: 194 CVS/ cvs-serv28978/ 195 196 cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978/conf/cvs-serv28978/crypt/cvs-serv28978/csu/CVS: 197 Entries Repository 198 199 cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978/conf/cvs-serv28978/crypt/cvs-serv28978/csu/cvs-serv28978: 200 ctype/ 201 202 cvs-serv28978/cvs-serv28978/arpa/cvs-serv28978/assert/cvs-serv28978/bare/cvs-serv28978/conf/cvs-serv28978/crypt/cvs-serv28978/csu/cvs-serv28978/ctype: 203 CVS/ cvs-serv28978/ 204 205 [...] 206 207 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 208 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: 209 210* From: Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.ai.mit.edu> 211 To: Cyclic CVS Hackers <info-cvs@prep.ai.mit.edu> 212 Subject: bizarre failure mode 213 Date: Tue, 7 Mar 95 14:17:28 -0500 214 215 This is pretty weird: 216 217 CVS_SERVER='TMPDIR=. /usr/local/bin/cvs' ../cvs-build/src/cvs update -q 218 cvs [server aborted]: could not get working directory: Result too large 219 [Exit 1] 220 asylum 29 % grep 'Result too large' /usr/include/sys/errno.h 221 #define ERANGE 34 /* Result too large */ 222 223 Now, getcwd fails with ERANGE when the buffer is too small. But I don't 224 know why that would be the case; I don't think there are exceptionally long 225 directory names involved. It would be robust to notice ERANGE and use a 226 bigger buffer. But I suspect something weirder is going on. 227 228 The repository in question in duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu:/gd4/gnu/cvsroot/libc. 229 230 Send me a PGP-signed message if you want the password to use the machine 231 where the problem showed up. 232