From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29564 invoked by alias); 17 Apr 2014 01:04:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 29552 invoked by uid 89); 17 Apr 2014 01:04:21 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: etr-usa.com Received: from etr-usa.com (HELO etr-usa.com) (130.94.180.135) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 17 Apr 2014 01:04:19 +0000 Received: (qmail 87506 invoked by uid 13447); 17 Apr 2014 01:04:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO [172.20.0.42]) ([68.35.121.157]) (envelope-sender ) by 130.94.180.135 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 17 Apr 2014 01:04:18 -0000 Message-ID: <534F288E.7020808@etr-usa.com> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 01:04:00 -0000 From: Warren Young User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin-L Subject: Re: Wow, just hit RCS bug (attn: Dr Volker Zell) References: <694832.7961.bm@smtp113.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <694832.7961.bm@smtp113.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-04/txt/msg00428.txt.bz2 On 4/16/2014 10:09, tednolan@bellsouth.net wrote: > I just hit the worst Cygwin bug I've encountered, the RCS bug which > silently corrupts text files > 256K. It's not a bug, it's a buffer size choice made with the rcs 5.8 release, which affects Cygwin for reasons unknown. GNU rcs 5.9.2 changed this functionality again in a way which may fix the problem: 2013-10-20 Thien-Thi Nguyen Relax RCS_MEM_LIMIT default; fall back if unspecified. * doc/rcs.texi (Environment): Update ‘RCS_MEM_LIMIT’ description; add a willful ignorance hint and speculation on its removal. I built 5.9.2 under Cygwin with default build options, and it successfully runs a test script that fails under the current Cygwin rcs, which was posted by Don Hatch when this problem came up here 6 months ago: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-10/msg00086.html Dr Volker Zell, the maintainer of the Cygwin rcs package, did not respond to that thread. A search shows only two emails from him to this list since that time. As far as I know, no one has investigated the reason why this change causes a problem on Cygwin, but it would seem that replacing 5.8.2 with 5.9.2 would help. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple