[cvsnt] Re: Problems during Update

[Keith D. Zimmerman]

What are the symptoms of the quirk?

keith d. zimmerman, mcsd 
eagle solutions

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Hoyle [mailto:tmh at nodomain.org] 
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 11:37 AM
To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
Subject: Re: [cvsnt] Re: Problems during Update


On Mon, 12 May 2003 10:53:33 -0400, "Keith D. Zimmerman"
<kzimmerman at eshcom.com> wrote:

>It would seem like you could do a similar thing to the locking
thing....
>As such (I don't know where the code is, but here is a potential
>solution...)
>
That's not the problem.  The problem is the rename after it's built the
file -
cvs creates _new_foo.txt, which is non-atomic (which is why it's done as
a
temporary file) then does a single atomic rename to foo.txt.  NAV
erroneously
opens the temporary file to virus scan it (even if, it seems, it's been
told
not to) so the rename fails.

Repeating the rename (with suitable annoying warnings about broken AV
scanners) sounds like it could work, but it doesn't, due to a quirk of
the NT
locking system I haven't got a handle on yet.

Tony

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