cvs [commit aborted]: received broken pipe signal

[0783735-Steven.P.Nicoloso(whd387)w236]

Just a quick note to tell of my solution to the (apparently)
well-known but poorly understood problem:

cvs [commit aborted]: received broken pipe signal

occuring on a cvs commit.  We are using:
  Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.11 (client/server)
with SunOS 5.8

Like others I've found on the web, this problem was
occurring on a directory that had a special "behavior" of
nothing happening to it.  I.e., in 

CVSROOT/loginfo I had originally:

^src/Big/Blue (echo "\c" > /dev/null)

When I changed this instruction to:

^src/Big/Blue (echo "\c"; cat) > /dev/null

the "problem" went away.

Cheers,
Steve
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Steven Nicoloso, MTS
Open Innovation Lab (OIL)
Lucent Technologies

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