CVS pserver check client's "-d" argument on the server

[Florian Große-Coosmann]

This bug doesn't happen with CVS 1.11.1p1. I tested
it with 1.11.5, 1.11.6, 1.12.1. These versions fail.

I use an inetd driven pserver. The server has a module
called "hs". I use the following extraction command:

cvs -d :pserver:localhost:/usr/local/cvsroot/hs -q checkout -d 10/src -r HEAD hs

The client hosts may vary without a change in response.
Doing a "-d src" will work, but the above call produces:

cvs [server aborted]: could not change directory to requested checkout 
directory `10': No such file or directory

The "-d" documentation says the flag is equivalent to
"cd dir; cvs ..." but that's not true. It is complete
nonsense to execute a directory check on the server.

I tracked down the stuff a little bit. The routine
safe_location() in checkout.c doesn the first error return.
Fixing it leads to another error at a different place.
So I rejected my changes and hope for a fix by the
maintainers.

Cheers, Florian