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"Nicholas Mongeau" <Lazar_Dobrescu at hotmail.com> wrote in message news:au05ge$e0m$1 at sisko.nodomain.org... > "Tony Hoyle" <tmh at nodomain.org> wrote in message > news:au028i$apa$1 at sisko.nodomain.org... > > Nicholas Mongeau wrote: > > > > > I was happy to see in build 62 that the :server: method was added to > > > CVSNT. Unfortunately, it seems it will not work anymore with build 63? > ( I > > > always get Connection to server failed messages) > > > > > > Is there any plan to make it work again? And where can I find binaries > for > > > build 62 in the meantime? > > > > > It's broke. Unfortunately so is the debian rsh server, so there's no way > of > > fixing it as I can't enable rsh on any machine to test it. > > > > I sounds like it's going to be one of those things that's a pain in the > neck > > to keep working, so I'll probably ditch it. > > > > Tony > > > > Lol, due to that informative, albeit unhelpful and mean response(I need my > :server:!!!), I went to take a look at what was wrong, and it seems that the > only problem is that server_connect() now uses tcp_connect_bind() directly, > and tcp_connect_bind() doest not set the static tcp_fd descriptor. So > basically, the socket that has just been connected goes into oblivion while > we try to use an uninitialized descriptor to send our data to cvs... > > As tcp_connect_bind() is in common.c, thus is probably used by a myriad of > methods other than server, I'm not certain that the solution would be to > simply add > tcp_fd = sock; > just before returning from that method, but it certainly makes it work for > the :server: method, which makes me happy :) > > Please do not ditch the :server: method, it's not always a choice at work > which method we have to use, and some of us are stuck with :server:... We > need cvsnt, it's so much better than other cvses!!! > > Nicholas > > Also, it seems that for some weird reason, server_protocol.dsp contains ext.c instead of server.c? Maybe I'm mistaken, but this is probably wrong :) Nicholas