[cvsnt] taginfo ignoring exit status

[Thorsten Lang]

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Hi everyone,
here is my little problem:

I recently configured CVSNT to deny certain kinds of tags in the repository
- or that's what I thought. Sadly CVS doesn't really care about my settings
in taginfo and continues to tag files with just about anything.

Here's the entry from taginfo:
ALL $CVSROOT/scripts/checkextendedtag.pl

That part seems to work, since CVS executes the script for every tag
operation. Now take a look at the script itself:

#!/usr/bin/perl
# checking tags for _xtaginfo substring at the end

# assign commandline parameters to appropriate variables
$tagname = shift;
$operation = shift;
$repository = shift; # not really needed right now, but anyway...

unless ($operation eq "add") {	# only needed for new tags so
        exit 0				# anything else gets exit 0
}

if ($tagname =~ m/\_xtaginfo$/) {	# if a tag ends on _xtaginfo
        exit 1				# signal CVS to abort tag
}
# end

The script works fine if I run it from the shell and it does return the
correct exit status. (I checked using "echo $?")

The problem is that CVS doesn't care about the script's exit status and
proceeds to tag anyway.

Is there something I may have overlooked - maybe some other configuration
file I have to alter?

Regards,
Thorsten