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Re: FAQ 4.46, applications interfere with subversion or not?
On Jun 4 14:33, David Rothenberger wrote:
> On 6/3/2009 8:37 AM, David Rothenberger wrote:
>> On 6/3/2009 8:20 AM, masc wrote:
>>> When using cygwin's cvs2svn with subversion (1.6.2 r37639) while running
>>> Avira AntiVir (http://www.avira.com/en/pages/index.php), svnadmin is
>>> failing
>>> sporadically due to permission failure moving files.
>>
>> The subversion code base has some hacks to retry various file
>> operations to work around this issue. These hacks are enabled for a
>> Windows build but not for Cygwin. I've attempted to port these hacks to
>> Cygwin, but I may have missed an error code or three, thus not retrying
>> some errors that should be retried.
>
> I just uploaded a new version of Subversion for 1.5 with a fix for the
> retry patch. I had missed a case when moving files.
>
>> Are you using Cygwin 1.5 or 1.7? I have disabled this hack in the 1.7
>> build because I was hoping 1.7's more robust file renaming and deleting
>> code would come to the rescue.
>
> It turns out that these problems still occur with 1.7, although less
> frequently, so I've also released new Subversion packages for 1.7 with
> the updated retry patch added.
Did we discuss this already? Can you nail down the problem into a
simple testcase?
Corinna
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