[cvsnt] Re: bad address error...

[Tony Hoyle]

Glen Starrett wrote:
> John Cole wrote:
> 
>> [checkout aborted]: cannot rename file _new_Setup_and_User_D
>> ocument.doc to Setup_and_User_Document.doc: Bad address
> 
> 
> IIRC (check the archives to confirm), most of the time that was caused 
> by AV interference.  The AV real time scanner is still checking out 
> _new_* when CVS tries to rename it.  A difference was the error message 
> wasn't "bad address" but "permission denied" or something like that.
> 
Windows 9x reports 'Bad address' when a file is locked by an AV, but 
I've not
heard of NT doing it, except over network shares (which don't behave 
consistently anyway).

Tony