In article <20070311213732.GA6099@panix.com>,
Thor Lancelot Simon  <tls@rek.tjls.com> wrote:
>On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 10:46:23AM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>> 
>> I suspect it's because of chroot tricks. anoncvs on anoncvs.netbsd.org
>> is most probably chrooted, and it's possible that cvsroot is a link to /
>> in the chroot. You're probably getting the /etc of the chroot here.
>
>No.  There is no such link.  However, I will note that the user in
>question, for some odd reason, chose to omit the "cvsroot" from the
>path anoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.org:/cvsroot so it is not surprising that
>he would be unable to find //CVSROOT -- there is no such directory.

Yes, and in that case cvs just ends up scanning all the directories,
does not find any files ending in ,v and does not return anything.

christos