[cvsnt] Re: cvstemp dir not clearing itself due to CVSMailer

Tyler Theobald tyler.theobald.junk at cox.net
Wed Feb 25 15:17:48 GMT 2004


> CVSMailer is not using the CVS temp dir at all so it will not be the
> cause of the problem. The only other thing I can think of is that CVS
> for some reason feels that it has left a process behind and is not
> releasing the temp dir for that reason. CVSMailer (first invocation)
> launches itself in a separate process in order to later collect the
> data that was combined from several CVS call to loginfo.
> But this process is detached from CVS and should not matter.

Well, if I set the CVSMailer delay to 0, the problem goes away.  Put it back
to 10000 and the problem comes back, so CVSMailer is obviously involved.

> Maybe if you scheduled a task in the middle of the night to clar out
> the unwanted folders?

Yea, if I can't get the root problem fixed, then that'll have to be the fix.

Thanks!





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