Re: Intermittent Issues with RCS binary co

[Aaron S. Hawley]

is RCS using GNU diffutils or the diff local to your OS?

these sorts of issues are likely hard to diagnose, because

1) dealing with binary files
2) Might be a problem with binary file support in GNU diffutils
3) Might be a problem in RCS code

/a

On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Meinert, Debora L. wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We are experiencing intermittent problems when trying to checkout software
> that is in binary format.  We are running RCS Version 5.7.  We downloaded
> and installed it on April 14, 2002 and haven't patched since then.  Here is
> our issue:
>
> On occasion when checking out a binary file using the following command:
>
>  co -r1.0 "XXGLPMCA.rdf" > "XXGLPMCA.rdf.out" 2>&1
>
> We find that the file, that has been checked out, gets truncated by more
> than half the bytes of the original file.  We are running on an HP-UX
> version 11.11 Superdome server, utilizing MC/ServiceGuard (failover).  Two
> situations are, forms will not compile because of the corrupted file and
> reports cannot be opened because of the corruption.  Have you had anyone
> report a problem similar to this and can you offer any suggestions?  Please
> feel free to contact me with other questions or suggestions.  Any info or
> help will be greatly appreciated as we are experiencing this in our
> production environment and are looking for a solution.
>
> Thanks,
> Debbie Meinert