freebsd stable - Jun 2013 - Subversion 1.8 / FreeBSD 8 x86 STABLE Symlinks

When using svn 1.8 I have come across a situation where when it is used pointing
to a symlink that refers to a working directory that a update will either
segfault or exit prematurely and leave a lock held on the working directory that
the symlink points to.

This leaves you with one choice but to run cleanup on the referenced actual
working directory which was AFAIK never the case for any version below 1.8.

Not sure if this is a problem with svn or FreeBSD itself but thought I would
report the characteristics in case it's noticed elsewhere.

Details:
Using UFS
FreeBSD 8-STABLE i386 as of this date.

In the directory...
cd /exports/usr
ln -s src8 src
svn up /exports/usr/src




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On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 02:20:21PM -0400, Jason Hellenthal
wrote:
> When using svn 1.8 I have come across a situation where when it is used
pointing to a symlink that refers to a working directory that a update will
either segfault or exit prematurely and leave a lock held on the working
directory that the symlink points to.
> 
> This leaves you with one choice but to run cleanup on the referenced actual
working directory which was AFAIK never the case for any version below 1.8.
> 
> Not sure if this is a problem with svn or FreeBSD itself but thought I
would report the characteristics in case it's noticed elsewhere.
> 
> Details:
> Using UFS
> FreeBSD 8-STABLE i386 as of this date.
> 
> In the directory...
> cd /exports/usr
> ln -s src8 src
> svn up /exports/usr/src
Known bug/problem in Subversion, not FreeBSD:

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=r1496007

Previous discussion:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2013-June/251842.html

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