Bug Report: CVS often fails in scripts under Cygwin

[Earnie Boyd]

--- Josh Schulte <jschulte@equilibrium.com> wrote:
> When I use CVS in scripts under Cygwin I often get "cvs: permission denied".
> This happens in perl and shell scripts. Not every cvs command will fail. But
> the ones that fail seem to consistently fail. For instance the following
> script:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> cvs edit build.txt
> echo "test" > build.txt
> cvs commit -m test build.txt
> 
> gives the following output:
> 
> cvs: permission denied
> cvs: permission denied
> 
> I ran this on Solaris to verify that I wasn't missing something, and of
> course it worked.
> 
> I've included my configuration information below.
> 
> *********************************************************
> 
> Cygnus Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics
> Current System Time: Wed Sep 20 15:30:41 2000
> 
> WinNT Ver 5.0 build 2195 
> 
> Path:	.
> 	/usr/local/bin
> 	/usr/local/bin
> 	/bin
> 	/c/development/Tools/common/bin
> 	/c/WINNT/system32
> 	/c/WINNT
> 
> SysDir: C:\WINNT\System32
> WinDir: C:\WINNT
> 
> HOME = `/c/Documents and Settings/Josh_Schulte'
> PWD = `/eq/dev'
> USER = `josh_schulte'
> 

Your HOME has spaces in it.  I suggest that you:
  mkdir /home
  mount c:/Documents\ and\ Settings /home
  export HOME=/home/Josh_Schulte
This may or may not solve your problem.

Cheers,

=====
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