Re: Peculiar date problem with checkout of zero-length files

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:33 PM, David Brodbeck <brodbd_at_u.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Oct 8, 2009, at 12:32 PM, Mark Phippard wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:22 PM, David Brodbeck <brodbd_at_u.washington.edu
>> > wrote:
>>> I have a RedHat Linux server that mounts a filesystem via NFSv4 from
>>> an OpenSolaris system.  I'm seeing very peculiar behavior when I
>>> check
>>> out zero-length files using Subversion 1.5.5.  These files end up
>>> with
>>> random dates, often far in the past or future -- I've seen dates in
>>> 1917, 1955, 1958, 1987, and 2013.  Naturally this causes Subversion
>>> to
>>> report "bogus date" errors.  I've now reproduced the behavior on
>>> three
>>> different systems using two different Linux distributions (Ubuntu and
>>> RedHat) and both 32-bit and 64-bit kernels.  Some interesting
>>> details:
>>>
>>> - The bug DOES NOT occur with Subversion 1.4.2.
>>>
>>> - The bug DOES occur with Subversion 1.5.5 and 1.6.5.
>>>
>>> - The bug DOES NOT occur when checking out to an NFSv3 filesystem
>>> or a
>>> local ext3 filesystem; it only seems to occur with NFSv4.  (Possibly
>>> ACL related?)
>>>
>>> - The bug DOES NOT occur when both the client and server are
>>> OpenSolaris machines.
>>>
>>> Has anyone seen anything like this before?  Before I noticed that the
>>> behavior didn't occur in Subversion 1.4.2, I reported it to RedHat as
>>> a possible kernel bug (#527580), but now I'm wondering if later
>>> versions of Subversion are doing something peculiar when they create
>>> zero-length files.
>>
>> It might be worth comparing the versions of APR used by the different
>> versions that are working and not working.  Subversion uses APR
>> functions for most (perhaps all) file related routines.
>
> Hi, Mark.
>
> That's an excellent thought.  I checked the copy of Subversion 1.5.5
> (which exhibits the bug) and the copy of Subversion 1.4.2 (which
> doesn't) that I used, and found both are linked against /usr/lib/
> libapr-1.so.0, so I don't think it's that.

Unless these are on the same physical system and linking to the exact
same library, then you should try to figure out the exact version.

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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