Donald Sharp writes:
>
> I wrote a tool that will tell you what files are corrupted in the
> repository. I am including it as a attachment( wonder If we'll get
> that Virus warning )
Cool! (And yes, we did.)
> Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
I haven't looked at it in any great detail, but it looks like it does a
reasonably through and efficient job, except for one thing:
> my $ret_code = system( "cvs -l co -n -p -r $revision $file > /dev/null 2>&1" );
>
> return( $ret_code >> 8 );
A corrupt RCS file can easily cause CVS to crash (either deliberately
due to an assertion failure or accidentally), so you don't want to
ignore the low-order bits of the return code. It's probably sufficient
to return $ret_code without any modification.
-Larry Jones
He doesn't complain, but his self-righteousness sure gets on my nerves.
-- Calvin
