Re: 'CVS-Unknown' buildfarm failures?

"Andrew Dunstan" <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>>> Another option would be to re-run cvs up one more time if we get any
>>> unexpected files. It sounds like that would fix this issue on windows
>>> machines, while still ensuring we had a clean repo to work from.

> So what I'm going to try instead is a variation on Jim's suggestion above,
> but instead of re-running cvs update, what we'll do is a longish sleep (say
> 10 or 20 secs) which should be enough time for Windows to get its act
> together, and then run cvs status, which will also show us extraneous files.

Yeah, this is probably OK since you only need to do it if you see any ?
entries in the cvs update.  Another low-tech solution is to sleep a bit
and then see if any of the files/directories listed in ? entries are
still there.
        regards, tom lane