[cvsnt] Re: cvs tag hangs using taginfo

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Tue Aug 24 16:27:16 BST 2004


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Mark Levedahl wrote:

> We use taginfo to invoke a script to assure format of tags: this works fine
> except in one directory that has 649 files with total size ~11M. cvs tag
> never completes (no response after ~2 hours) in this directory. cvs tag
> works fine in the same if we disable the taginfo script.
> 
If your taginfo script reading its standard input? If it fails to do 
that CVSNT will wait forever for it to start accepting input, once it 
has pushed a certain amount of data into the input stream (about 4K AFAIK).

Tony



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