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Look at line 6293 in server.c - that's the 'else if (server_active)' inside of the cvs_flusherr() function. If you were looking at the repository, did you get the tag CVSNT_1_11_1_3_REL_57B? John Goehringer "Ullrich Pollaehne" <u.pollaehne at seeburger.de> wrote in message news:3CB569D0.2020900 at seeburger.de... > Hi John, > > I would like to patch the code since I want to use CVSNT and eclipse but > I cannot find the code sequence in server.c. I do not have "else if > (server_active)" neither in the 57b code nor in the current repository. > I only find > if (server_active && supported_response ("MT")) > ... > else > ... > > Could it be that you added the whole else-if? > > Ullrich. > > John Goehringer wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Been working with the Eclipse CVS client and the > > 1.11.1.3 builds. It's been reported that the newest > > Eclipse builds work ok with build 58b, but > > we found a problem with doing checkouts. > > > > The checkout from Eclipse finishes without reporting > > an error, but no files are fetched. > > > > Tracked this down to server.c/server_protocol() > > getting a very large count_needed from buf_copy_counted(), > > and never sending the output back to the client. > > > > The large count_needed is the int value of > > 'Mod-', as in Mod-time 9 Oct 1997 17:50:00 -0000. > > > > The Eclipse CVS client does not support the "MT" > > response, so in server.c/cvs_output_tagged() > > cvs_output() is called to send to the client. cvs_output() > > calls cvs_flusherr(), which calls buf_send_special_count(). > > > > buf_send_special_count() prepends it's count as the first > > data packet, chains any existing data from the passed > > buffer to data->next, and calls buf_send_output(). > > > > If there is data in the buf sent to buf_send_special_count(), > > it is sent over the pipe without the leading count, so > > server_protocol() ends up picking those first 4 bytes > > (Mod-) as the count, a large number. > > > > My patch is to add buf_send_counted (protocol) to > > cvs_flusherr() prior to buf_send_special_count (protocol, -2) > > > > so > > > > else if (server_active) > > { > > /* make sure stderr is flushed before we send the flush count on the > > * protocol pipe > > */ > > fflush (stderr); > > /* Send a special count to tell the parent to flush. */ > > buf_send_special_count (protocol, -2); > > } > > > > becomes > > > > else if (server_active) > > { > > /* buf_send_special_count sends it's count only, so be sure to send > > * any current data with it's count first. > > */ > > buf_send_counted (protocol); > > /* make sure stderr is flushed before we send the flush count on the > > * protocol pipe > > */ > > fflush (stderr); > > /* Send a special count to tell the parent to flush. */ > > buf_send_special_count (protocol, -2); > > } > > > > John Goehringer > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cvsnt mailing list > > Cvsnt at cvsnt.org > > http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt https://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/en.asp#downcvs > > > _______________________________________________ > Cvsnt mailing list > Cvsnt at cvsnt.org > http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt https://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/en.asp#downcvs _______________________________________________ Cvsnt mailing list Cvsnt at cvsnt.org http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt https://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/en.asp#downcvs