From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 7 9: 1:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7EFA1543B for ; Fri, 7 May 1999 09:01:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA00370 for ; Fri, 7 May 1999 09:01:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id JAA31668 for stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 7 May 1999 09:01:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199905062319.JAA05080@lightning.itga.com.au> Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 09:01:14 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc. From: John Polstra To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Directories disappearing with CVSUP, -stable, and SOFTUPDATE Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Last night I tried some experiments in an attempt to duplicate the problem that's been discussed in this thread. (Namely: CVSup in checkout mode replaced a symlink-to-directory with a real directory.) Unfortunately, I wasn't able to make it happen. I also inspected the relevant code, and couldn't see an obvious way for it to happen. So I have several questions for those who have experienced this problem: 1. Was NFS involved in any way? 2. Please bracket the date when it happened as tightly as possible. I.e., definitely after XX date, but definitely before YY date. 3. If anybody has the log output from the offending run, that would really help. 4. You didn't fiddle with that symlink around that time, did you? Thanks, John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-interest is the aphrodisiac of belief." -- James V. DeLong To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message