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

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Thu Feb 26 10:38:18 GMT 2004


Bo Berglund wrote:
> Involved, yes - but how?
> It may well be that somehow CVS senses that a process has been spawned off
> and therefor does not clear out the folder.
> One possibility might be that CVS when launching the loginfo script command
> sets the current dir to this temp dir. THis might cause the deletion of the
> folder to fail because "someone" is there...

That's how it's supposed to work - when the loginfo script is called its 
current directory is a working sandbox... in the case of client/server 
this is the server temp directory.  From this you can get extra 
information about the commit.

> Would be good to know what the conditions are on the cvsnt side for removing or
> not removing the temp folder...

It always tries, but failure isn't fatal - partly because it happens 
after the client has disconnected and partly because on Unix the /tmp is 
usually cleared on each boot anyway.

Tony



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