Wow, just hit RCS bug (attn: Dr Volker Zell)
Achim Gratz
Stromeko@NexGo.DE
Thu Apr 17 08:21:00 GMT 2014
Warren Young <warren <at> etr-usa.com> writes:
> It's not a bug, it's a buffer size choice made with the rcs 5.8 release,
> which affects Cygwin for reasons unknown.
It is a bug in the "stdio" code path, independently of buffer size. That
bug doesn't trigger on GNU/Linux, btw.
> I built 5.9.2 under Cygwin with default build options, and it
> successfully runs a test script that fails under the current Cygwin rcs,
> which was posted by Don Hatch when this problem came up here 6 months
> ago: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-10/msg00086.html
Make sure you test the stdio code path, if they changed the sematics of
RCS_MEM_LIMIT again, then you may need a different demonstrator to switch to
stdio from the usual mmap code path.
Regards,
Achim.
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