Re: [Cscope-devel] Does switch -R always work?

[Neil H. <nh...@gm...>]

I'd missed the clearcase bit.  I assume Hans, you are referring to the
symlink fixups that we put in a few months back?  If this is related to
clearcase, then I'm sure that won't help. This is almost certainly failing
because lstat is not isdentifying directories as such (due to a non-set
S_ISDIR flag).  Based on the view spec file for a given project, its
possible to see subdirectories in a given tree that are not flagged as such=
,
which of course confuses the everlasting hell out of just about anything,
cscope not withstanding.

Lim, if you want this to work your best bet is to do what your doing, build
the filelist by hand.  Clearcase is so hopelessly broken, that -R just isn'=
t
going to work reliably on it anytime in the near future.

Of course, you could always switch your SCM tool to something other than
clearcase... :)

Regards
Neil



On 12/19/05, Hans-Bernhard Broeker <br...@ph...> wrote:
>
> YT Lim wrote:
> > OS: Solaris 5.8
> > F/S: NFS (with Clearcase)
>              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> I'm quite sure that this is the culprit.  ClearCase is a disaster
> waiting to happen for any tools that rely on the perfectly valid
> assumption that a mounted file system will actually follow the standard
> behaviour (POSIX et al.) of a Unix file system.  From what I hear,
> ClearCase violates at least one very fundamental Unix rule: one file
> <--> one inode number, has done so forever, and refuses to even consider
> that this might be a bad thing.
>
> If you're very lucky, upgrading to the CVS version of cscope might help
> --- there's been some change to the way it checks for suitability of
> files and directories since 15.5.  But don't hold your breath.  If
> there's a change, it'll be by chance, not by design.
>
>
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