Cygwin CVS trailing dot problem

Sun May 14 15:53:00 GMT 2006

Hi Igor,
Thanks for your reply and sorry for noting knowing the policy of PPIOSPE :-)
Have a nice day.
Joy
> Hi, Joy,
>> <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE>. It is usually a bad idea to send
> email to random Cygwin mailing list participants, rather than asking on
> the Cygwin mailing list. I'm redirecting this reply to the appropriate
> list.
>> On 2006年5月13日, Joy wrote:
>>>> Hi Igor,
>>>> I had the problem with Cygwin+CVS+SSH when trying to access the remote CVS
>> repository via SSH, CVS reports that:
>> cannot mkdir /tmp/cvs-serv1992/.
>> No such file or directory
>>>> My CVS setup worked fine until I updated my CVS yesterday. I didn't realize
>> the problem was caused by the trailing dot till I saw your post:
>> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-03/msg00576.html
>>>> Your problem was most likely caused by updating Cygwin, rather than CVS.
>>>> Do you know whether there is a solution to this now?
>>>> Yes, Cygwin's mkdir/rmdir returned an error code that CVS didn't know to
> ignore. This was fixed in the Cygwin snapshots (and will be fixed in the
> next released version). For now, you can try a snapshot from
> <http://cygwin.com/snapshots/>.
> HTH,
> 	Igor
>
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