gnu/65869: cvs generates invalid cvs command lines

[Mark Andrews]

The following reply was made to PR gnu/65869; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews at isc.org>
To: Ceri Davies <ceri at FreeBSD.org>,
	FreeBSD Gnats Submit <freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org>
Cc:  
Subject: Re: gnu/65869: cvs generates invalid cvs command lines 
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 07:29:20 +1000

 > On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 09:36:04AM +1000, Mark Andrews wrote:
 > > 
 > > > Synopsis: cvs generates invalid cvs command lines
 > > > 
 > > > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
 > > > State-Changed-By: ceri
 > > > State-Changed-When: Thu Apr 22 03:28:02 PDT 2004
 > > > State-Changed-Why: 
 > > > "ssh host -l user cvs server" should actually work just the same.
 > > 
 > > 	No it shouldn't.  It says to run the command "-l" on "host"
 > > 	with arguements "user cvs server"
 > 
 > It seems to work for me, on Solaris and FreeBSD:
 
 	Looks like openssh has a bug. There are other ssh implementations
 	that actually do the right thing.
  
 >  $ ssh rios2 -l foo cvs server
 >  foo at rios2's password:
 > 
 > > > However, if you'd like to see this fixed then I'd suggest mailing your
 > > > patch to bug-cvs at gnu.org for inclusion in the next release of CVS, and
 > > > FreeBSD will then pick it up in the next import.
 > > 
 > > 	I've sent a complaint to cvs-bugs at gnu.org against
 > > 	client.c:1.318.4.19 which is the HEAD of the cvs1-11-x-branch.
 > 
 > Great, thanks.
 > 
 > Ceri
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