Re: Unreliability in CVS access

[JD Smith]

On Jun 24, 2006, at 4:22 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:

> Has anyone investigated this problem?  It is a serious problem,
> which is why I put it in FOR-RELEASE.
>
> There used to be a bad interaction between CVS and SSH.
> A year ago I convinced the CVS developers to make a change
> designed to solve the problem.  Is this that same problem?
> I am not sure, but the fact that the problem never happens
> with Emacs 21 suggests the bug is in Emacs.
>
> JD Smith, are you using CVS thru SSH?
> Does the problem go away with the latest CVS?
> Does the latest CVS contain a fix for the problem
> as they discussed it a year ago?

Though I have not exercised CVS through SSH much recently, I have not  
had the problem recur (same CVS version).  My vague impression was  
that it was related to a temporary or intermittent configuration  
issue on the server (e.g. savannah) side which persisted for several  
weeks in April, but I don't have much more to go on than that.   
Stefan Monnier mentioned other reports of the same or similar  
problem, so perhaps tracking those down would yield progress.  Sorry  
I don't have more help to offer.  I will certainly keep an eye out  
for recurrence.

JD