Re: vc-mode permissions problems on NT

[David Abrahams]

Andre Spiegel <address@hidden> writes:

> [ Let's stop copying emacs-devel on this for subsequent messages.
>   I don't think it's overly interesting for the others how we trace 
>   that bug.  I'll post a summary once we've nailed it down. ]

OK.

> On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 17:57, David Abrahams wrote:
>
>> D/tuple////
>> D/type_traits////
>> D/utility////
>> /index.html/1.2/Thu Aug 15 18:37:55 2002//
>> D/variant////
>> D/iterator////
>> ...
>
> That looks all completely reasonable.  Would you please step through 
> vc-cvs-parse-entry while finding the file?  
> Especially the comparison
> between checkout-time and mtime at the end of that function is of
> interest here.  

It skips the first cond clause,

enters the second one,

vc-workfile-version gets "1.2"

(match-string 4) and (match-string 5) both yield ""

mtime is (15707 62723)
mtstr is "8/15/02 18:37:55"

The solaris "(if ... )" clause is skipped

(match-string 2) is "Thu Aug 15 18:37:55 2002"

> Right now, I don't see how it could possibly fail,

I think you have your answer now.

> because all the dates agree, but I have a hunch that it may be due to a
> locale / timezone problem.
>
> Also, for completeness, what value does the local var checkout-time
> actually have in vc-cvs-state-heuristic?

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