[cvsnt] Re: cvstemp dir not clearing itself due to CVSMailer

[Jeff Urlwin]

> 
> 
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 13:15:11 -0600, "Tyler Theobald" 
> <tyler.theobald.junk at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> >I'm referring specifically to the CVSNT temp directory.  I 
> see in some 
> >posts last year that you were talking through this issue 
> already, but 
> >can't tell if you found a fix.....?  Thanks!
> >
> Well,
> CVSMailer is not using the CVS temp dir at all so it will not 
> be the cause of the problem. The only other thing I can think 
> of is that CVS for some reason feels that it has left a 
> process behind and is not releasing the temp dir for that 
> reason. CVSMailer (first invocation) launches itself in a 
> separate process in order to later collect the data that was 
> combined from several CVS call to loginfo. But this process 
> is detached from CVS and should not matter.
> 
> Maybe if you scheduled a task in the middle of the night to 
> clar out the unwanted folders?

Just to add my $0.02.  I'm not sure if I saw this behavior before using CVS
Mailer, but I *think* I did.  (OK, don't take this to the bank and look for
credit :)

Another thought, though, what is CVSMailer's current directory at the time
of running?  Could this, somehow, be preventing cvs from cleaning the
directory

I *definitely* have the same behavior here -- lots of CVS temp dirs hanging
around.  A simple (using 4nt) script cleans it out.

For /a:d %f in (cvs*) do rd /s /q %f

Jeff