RE: [TSVN] Re: virus scanner known _not_ to behave badly

Hi Norbert,

> If that was true, I would throw my virus scanner away, since
> it would nt
> find virusses in command line programs.

That's what we did :-)

> The svn command line
> tools are
> native 32 bit windows NT applications that are compiled for
> the console
> mode. All file i/o goes through the windows file system calls and are
> therefore checked by the on-access virus scanners.

Maybe, but I used Filemon to see what's happening and what was causing my
errors. The errors also showed up a bit random, so it was a timing problem
as well. Filemon didn't show any activity by the virus scanner when I ran
'svn up', but it showed a lot of activity when I ran 'TortoiseSVN Update'.
That makes me pretty sure that at that time (a year ago) the virus scanner
did not notice the files opened and closed by a CL application.

> So if the GUI is affected but command line tools are not, then there
> must be other differences.

It used to be like that a year ago. Maybe that has changed in the meantime.
I haven't tested it and I won't install one of these virus scanners again
just to try it out. Only recently (6-10 weeks ago) we had someone on the
list who ran into the same trouble with one of his virus scanners. So the
problem isn't gone yet.

Cheers
- Lübbe

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