[cvsnt] Zombie processes

[Pat Galea]

I've done some more experiments on a local repository regarding my 
zombie process problem.

It appears that cvs (2.0.51d) is crashing whenever I perform a "cvs 
status -v" on a path containing more than one "../".

If the path contains 3 "../"s (e.g. "cvs status -v 
../../../000/blah/junk/file.bin"), then I get the "Do you want a 
crashdump" dialog.

If the path contains 2 "../"s (e.g. "cvs status -v 
../../000/blah/junk/file.bin"), then I get the same dialog, but also 
this message on the command line:

cvs [server aborted]: cannot mkdir C:\Program 
Files\cvsnt\Temp/cvs-serv3712/##CVSDUMMY/##CV*/../../000/blah/junk: 
Invalid argument

(The '*' in the above path actually appears as the 'Club' playing card 
symbol. I replaced it with a '*' because I'm not sure the email 
transport will let the real character through intact.)

Any use to you Tony?

Regards
Pat Galea

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Pat Galea
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