[cvsnt] Re: Problems with 2.0.62.1849....

Bo Berglund bo.berglund at telia.com
Mon Jan 17 21:26:07 GMT 2005


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On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 20:21:57 +0000, Tony Hoyle <tmh at nodomain.org>
wrote:

>Bo Berglund wrote:
>> 
>> 2) The list of files and versions is no longer coming in as they did before
>> in the last call argument.
>> 
>> All previous versions sent the module name followed by the file,revision
>> list as the last parameter of the call.
>
>This one does too - not sure why your script is seeing it as different 
>arguments.  The cvsnt-commits messages are generated by a perl script 
>under Unix that has the same requirements.

The thing is that if a call parameter is surrounded by 

>Perhaps Win32 is doing something odd to the argument list...
>
>> 3) The $CVSPID does not supply the same number as before...
>> I use CVSPID to find the process information for the CVSNT instance calling
>> the script.
>> I do this in order to create a separate temp dir for each cvs process to
>> store consolidating information in.
>
>The only thing you can guarantee about CVSPID is it's the same for 
>scripts called by the same process.  It may or may not be useful for 
>anything else.. On win32 and Unix it's the result of getpid()... not 
>necessarily on all platforms though.
>
>Sending it as a hex number is bizarre... I didn't know the old version 
>did that.
>
>> 4) In 1849 the $CVSROOT does not transfer the root used by the call.
>> What is instead thrown in is the physical path to the root, of course this
>> plays havoc with the parsing of the data too.
>
>You could replace $CVSROOT with %r/%p, and it'd do the same.  I'm not 
>sure that $CVSROOT should be virtual though, as you can't do things like 
>'echo foo >>$CVSROOT/output' otherwise.
>
>OTOH I'd rather maintain backward compatibility as much as possible, so 
>I may have to reimplement the problem!
>
>> Should I go on sending my findings to you or should I post something to the
>> group as well??
>
>Best to CC the group so it gets archived.
>
>Tony


/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)



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