SCO problems with NFS (have you noticed any?)

Rich Braun rbraun at spdcc.COM
Wed May 29 08:34:27 AEST 1991


jim at tiamat.fsc.com ( IT Manager) writes:
> On the SCO
>machine, RCS would fail when doing checkouts because it could not build the
>filename to use in the $SOurce$ keyword.  A quick look at the code showed that
>the problem may be linked to RCS trying to use it's own directory reading
>routines, which were not prepared to deal with foreign OS directories via NFS.

I'm participating in the RCS v5.6 beta, so I'll have to take a look at
this.  The filename-handling routines have been rewritten (partly
motivated by the MS-DOS port) so I suspect this problem has been solved.

5.6 should be out within a short time; I don't know the schedule.

-rich



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