Re: pathological cvs recursion ?

[dieter roelants <dieter.NetBSD%pandora.be@localhost>]

On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 16:50:49 -0800
bch <brad.harder%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

> I've run into this a few times:
> 
> U external/bsd/libc++/dist/libcxx/test/libcxx/experimental/containers/sequences/src/external/gpl3/binutils/dist/opcodes/aarch64-tbl.h
> 
> 
> where there are sub-trees seem to be recursively re-added (see
> .../src/external/gpl3... as part of ./src/external/bsd/...).
> 
> Has anybody else experienced this ? Does anybody know what's going on ?

Hi Brad,

I'm almost certain it's because the CVS server has its temp directory
on a tmpfs. I got reports of the same issue back wen I ran a CVS mirror
and I "fixed" it by changing the tmpfs to an mfs mount. See also PR 46148.

kind regards
dieter

> 
> -bch