[cvsnt] Re: problem with checkout / permissions?

[Tony Hoyle]

Gerhard Fiedler wrote:

> Maybe I have time to look at the code itself, but I think that there's
> something missing here. FWIW, 2.0.34 works, and 2.0.35, 36, 38 and 40a
> don't. From what I've seen by a cursory browse, it seems that some code to
> fake a Unix server has been added or modified from 34 to 35.

That just changes the output from 'cvs version' - it doesn't affect the 
operation of cvsnt itself.

The code is safe_location() in checkout.c if you want to have a look at it. 
It's called to check the current location on startup, which is always a 
subdirectory of the temporary directory in client/server mode (cvs-servxxxxx).

> "However, there is a more subtle cause, which is that the temporary
> directory on the server is set to a subdirectory of the root (which is also
> not allowed)."

That sounds like the reason.  The client directory is irrelevant in a 
client/server operation.  This is borne out by the [server aborted] in the 
error message - it's the server that's stopping you.

> I don't know exactly what the CVSNT server uses as temp directory. If it is
> using the value that's configured through the configuration applet (which
> would be what I expect), that's E:\Data\CVS\tmp. This is not a subdirectory
> of a repository root (the repository prefix is "E:/Data/CVS/repositories").
> To make sure, I changed the temp dir setting to F:\tmp\CVSNT -- no change,
> same problem.

It uses what's configured in the applet.  I'm not sure why it would consider 
that to be the same as the repository in your case.

Tony

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