Re: [Monotone-devel] Make check failure

[Matt Johnston]

On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 10:35:00AM -0700, Justin Patrin wrote:
> On 7/15/07, William Uther <address@hidden> wrote:
> >I have to rm -r tester_dir to get things to make check successfully
> >again.  This is on MacOS.
> >
> >The error "cannot handle special file" appears in unix/fs.cc which
> >has been changed a bit recently...
> >
> >Is anyone else seeing this?
> 
> Yep, I'm seeing the same thing.

Me too. One solution would be to explicitly handle special
files (the same as nonexistant/directory/file is at the
moment). I've attached a patch that passes the testsuite -
I'm not sure if such an intrusive way is the right solution,
so I'd be interested to hear thoughts.

Matt

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