[cvsnt] Re: chown not setting owner on HPUX and 2.5.01

[Tony Hoyle]

Gary Lewis wrote:
> Trying to set eh owner of the directory on HP-UX and the owner is not 
> getting set, but I do not get any errors when running the command.  The 
> cvs lsacl shows that it is not getting set.  Also I get the fileattr.xml 
> malformed error.  I have been searching this news group and I do not 
> find any answers as to why this is not working.  It works fine in XP 
> CVSNT Server without any special setup.  Any ideas?
>
It's probably not worth bothering with.  The directory owner just has 
admin privs on the directory... you can add that with an ACL anyway.

The HPUX compiler has the interesting property of taking completely 
valid code and making random junk out of it...  it's probably nothing to 
do with the code.  For the most part the upshot of this is to use the 
functions that work until such time as someone gets around to working 
out how to make it do something sane on that platform.  Personally I'd 
avoid anything like a server on it (I have to support it for the paying 
customers but there we can at least babysit it a bit and make it work... 
not really prepared to put that kind of effort in for free, TBH).

Tony