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Re: Bug Report: CVS often fails in scripts under Cygwin
- To: Josh Schulte <jschulte at equilibrium dot com>
- Subject: Re: Bug Report: CVS often fails in scripts under Cygwin
- From: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 19:50:54 -0400
- CC: "'cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com'" <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- References: <67677D360C1FD411BB4000B0D02080412949F3@EQEXCHANGE>
Josh Schulte 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.
>
Can you run these three commands from the shell by hand without error?
$ cvs edit build.txt
$ echo "test" > build.txt
$ cvs commit -m test build.txt
--Chuck
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