Re: cvs client failure to examine directory on NFS V3

Thomas Hellstrom writes:
> 
> When committing/importing from a directory which resides on an NFS V3 
> filesystem, the  CVS fails to examine the directories
> with a 'value too large for data type' error. Commits seem to work 
> anyway, but once on a 'cvs import' a whole directory structure got left 
> out which is not really good.

Having a working directory on an NFS-mounted file system is not a
particularly good idea.

> Fix:
> Adding "AC_SYS_LARGEFILE" to configure.in, and rerunning autoconf fixes 
> the problem for me.

I'd be very leary of trusing this "fix".  The CVS code has not been
vetted to ensure that it works correctly with large file support.

-Larry Jones

He piqued my curiosity. -- Calvin