[cvsnt] Bug in "cvs ls"?

Jo.Kilian at gmx.de Jo.Kilian at gmx.de
Wed Sep 11 15:20:09 BST 2002


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Hi there,

When I'm trying to use cvs ls I get the following error:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Listing modules on server

cvs [server aborted]: cannot make directory D:/CVSRepository/lock/s -s
Komponente ETC-Kontrollstelle/EtcMetrics
EtcMetricsBuild -s Buildinfo -a ETC-Kontrollstelle: Invalid argument
cvs [server aborted]: cannot make directory D:/CVSRepository/lock/s -s
Komponente ETC-Kontrollstelle/EtcMetrics
cvs [server aborted]: cannot make directory D:/CVSRepository/lock/s -s
Komponente ETC-Kontrollstelle/EtcMetrics
EtcMetricsBuild -s Buildinfo -a ETC-Kontrollstelle: Invalid argument
cvs [ls aborted]: reading from server: error -1
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

I've set the Lock-Dir in my CVSROOT/config file to:
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LockDir=D:/CVSRepository/lock
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I also use a big modules file, which contains the following lines:
------------------------------------
.....
EtcMetrics -s Komponente ETC-Kontrollstelle/EtcMetrics
EtcMetricsBuild -s Buildinfo -a ETC-Kontrollstelle/EtcMetrics
build/EtcMetrics_build.xml
.....
------------------------------------

The name of lock-directory, CVS "cannot make", seems to origin from my
modules-file.

Is this an error of CVSNT? My modules file works fine ....

Thanks

Johannes Kilian

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