[clue-admin] Odd CVS warning publishing the website

David L. Anselmi anselmi at anselmi.us
Thu Feb 8 20:44:42 MST 2007


Jed S. Baer wrote:
[...]
> Simply unsetting HOME feels wierd to me. I'd wonder what the filename
> resolves to in the fopen statement. I suppose it depends on how it's
> constructed (what, me, read the source?), but ~/.cvsignore becomes what if
> HOME isn't set?
> 
> I'm more comfortable setting HOME to what it would be if Apache were being
> started 'really' as apache, unless some other bright idea surfaces.

If the open fails (e.g., I don't have a .cvsignore) CVS is fine.  It's 
when the permissions don't allow it to check that you get the error. 
But given that the error doesn't hurt anything the best thing may be 
just to ignore it.  Or send them a patch.

Dave



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