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      1 See the Cederqvist manual (cvs.texinfo) for information on how to
      2 report bugs (and what will happen to your bug reports if you do).
      3 
      4 The following is a list of some of the known bugs.  It may or may not
      5 be comprehensive.  We would dearly love for people to volunteer to
      6 help us keep it up to date (for starters, if you notice any
      7 inaccuracies, please let bug-cvs know as described in the Cederqvist
      8 manual).  There are some other reported bugs in MINOR-BUGS; the
      9 difference, at least in theory, is that those bugs are less serious.
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     11 
     12 * For platform-specific information (in some cases including known
     13 bugs), see README.VMS, windows-NT/README, or os2/README.  There is no
     14 similar file for the unix-like operating systems (not yet, at least).
     15 This file also might contain some platform-specific bugs.
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     18 * If your login name contains a space or various other characters
     19 (particularly an issue on Windows), CVS will have trouble (it will
     20 write invalid RCS files, probably).  The fix would be to have CVS
     21 change such characters to underscores before writing them to the RCS
     22 file.  Furthermore, the LOGNAME or USER environment variables usually
     23 won't override the system login name, so this can be hard to work
     24 around.
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     26 
     27 * If you specify the -w global option to client/server CVS, it only
     28 overrides a CVSREAD environment variable set on the client, not a
     29 CVSREAD variable which was set on the server (for example, in .bashrc
     30 when the server was run via rsh).  The fix of course will be to
     31 provide a "Option-read-write" request which sends -w, in addition to
     32 "Global_option -r" which sends -r.
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     34 
     35 * Symbolic links to files will not work with or without LockDir.  In the
     36 repository, you should avoid using symbolic links to files since this issue
     37 can cause data loss.  Symlinks are only a problem when writing files.  If your
     38 repository does not allow any write access, symlinks are not a problem.
     39 
     40 
     41 * Symbolic links to directories will not work with LockDir.  In the
     42 repository, you should avoid using symbolic links to directories if
     43 you intend to use LockDir as the correct directory will NOT be locked
     44 by CVS during write.  Directory symlinks are not recommended, but should work
     45 as long as LockDir is not being used.  Symlinks are only a problem when
     46 writing files.  If your repository does not allow any write access, symlinks
     47 are never a problem, whether or not LockDir is in use.
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     49 
     50 * The -m option to "cvs add" does not work with client/server CVS.
     51 CVS will accept the option, but it won't actually set the
     52 file's description.
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     54 
     55 * cvs update walks into a user's work directory if there's a directory
     56   of the same name in the repository even if the user's directory
     57   doesn't yet have a CVS admin sub-directory.  This can greatly confuse
     58   users who try to add the same directory at nearly the same time.
     59 
     60 
     61 * From: "Charles M. Hannum" <mycroft (a] ai.mit.edu>
     62   To: info-cvs (a] prep.ai.mit.edu
     63   Subject: Still one more bug
     64   Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 17:01:15 -0500
     65   
     66   mycroft@duality [1]; cd /usr/src/lib/libc
     67   mycroft@duality [1]; cvs diff -C2 '-D1 day ago' -Dnow
     68   cvs server: Diffing .
     69   cvs server: Diffing DB
     70   cvs [server aborted]: could not chdir to DB: No such file or directory
     71   mycroft@duality [1];
     72   
     73   `DB' is an old directory, which no longer has files in it, and is
     74   removed automatically when I use the `-P' option to checkout.
     75   
     76   This error doesn't occur when run locally.
     77   
     78   P.S.  Is anyone working on fixing these bugs?
     79 
     80 
     81 * CVS does not always seem to be waiting to the next filesystem timestamp
     82 quanta after commits.  So far this has only shown up in testing under the BSDI
     83 OS.  The symptoms are that ocassionally CVS will not notice that modified files
     84 are modified, though the file must be modified within a short time after the
     85 commit, probably milliseconds or seconds, for this symptom to be noticed.  One
     86 suspected cause is that one of the calls to sleep_past() is being called with
     87 an incorrect value, though this does not explain why symptoms have only been
     88 noticed under BSDI.
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     90 
     91 * The CVS server is leaving a temp directory (/tmp/cvs-serv*) on AIX 4.3 under
     92 very rare circumstances (one out of c. 10,500 test cases).  This appears to be
     93 dependent on some sort of race condition as it disappears with tracing enabled
     94 and under the debugger.  Informative feedback is welcome.
     95 
     96 
     97 * UNICOS 9.0 on Cray currently fails testing in both client/server and
     98   writeproxy modes.
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    100 
    101 * Status
    102 
    103   This experimental version of CVS contains new features which may not have
    104   been tested as thoroughly as the stable release.  It is classified as:
    105 
    106                           /*-------------.
    107                           | Experimental |
    108                           `-------------*/
    109 
    110                      /*-------------------------.
    111                      | Sane for full scale use. |
    112                      `-------------------------*/
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