[Gnu-arch-users] Re: corrupted binary files

[Stefan Monnier]

>> These binary files were imported using cscvs (not sure if that makes
>> any difference...).
> It very well might. See if
>   cvs -q update -p -r${REVISION} ${FILENAME} > ${FILENAME}
> gives correct or incorrect output.

Is the CVS repository accessed via ssh?  Are you running your cvs command
on a glibc (or MacOSX) machine?

This may be yet-another-instance of the cvs+ssh+libc bug which causes
some of the output of cvs to be lost sometimes.  It's known to occur
with glibc and with MacOSX's libc, but may also occur with others.

If you suspect you are suffering from this problem, please try to set
CVS_RSH to the following script:

   #!/bin/bash
   exec 2> >(exec cat >&2 2>/dev/null)
   exec ssh "$@"


-- Stefan