Re: Ident lockup

[Aaron S. Hawley]

As an addendum: on GNU/unix machines I observed this behavior:

$ ident RCS
RCS:
ident warning: no id keywords in RCS
$ ident rcs
ident error: rcs: No such file or directory

this is obviously a result of directories reading just like files on
GNU/unix but not on Windows.

perhaps the windows(tm) source of RCS should check if the filename is a
directory.  this functionality is not crucial as there is no directory
recursion behavior anyway.
/a

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Aaron Manning wrote:

> Hello All,
>
>      I have a question with the functionality of Ident. Currently I am using
> scripts to execute Ident on a list of files (100+). Within the files is the
> a link file called "RCS" pointing to the rcs repository. All files within
> the project are RCS'ed and when my script executes an "Ident.exe RCS" to
> check for $Id$ tags, Ident will hang. It is the same as if you just typed
> "Ident" with no file to check. I was wondering if this is intended or maybe
> this is a bug? I am using the RCS 5.7 Win version. I have verified that the
> linux version does not hang on an "Ident.exe RCS" call. Also, if I use
> "Ident.exe rcs" <lowercase> the hang issue does not occur? Has anyone else
> seen this?
>
> Thanks,
> Aaron