CVSREADONLYFS and run-tests.py interaction

[Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen]

On 13 Jan 2010, at 15:08, Greg Ward wrote:

> E.g. which versions of CVS (and which operating systems?) are affected.

For what it's worth, this environment variable is also recognised by the CVS distributed with Mac OS X 10.6:

>>        -R
>> 
>>          Turns on read-only repository mode.  This allows  one  to  check  out
>>          from  a  read-only  repository,  such as within an anoncvs server, or
>>          from a cd-rom repository.
>> 
>>          Same effect as if the  CVSREADONLYFS  environment  variable  is  set.
>>          Using -R can also considerably speed up checkouts over NFS.


After a bit of digging, I found out that it was introduced in 2003 by this commit:

http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/cvs/ccvs/src/main.c?view=diff&r1=1.175&r2=1.176

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Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen
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