[Dev] cvs error on window tinderboxes

[Brian Kirsch]

Hi Anthony,
I should have pickup on it before checking in, test_virus2  is a pretty 
obvious.


Thanks for the mime torture tests they are proving very helpful!


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On Jan 20, 2005, at 3:23 AM, Anthony Baxter wrote:

> On Thursday 20 January 2005 05:08, Heikki Toivonen wrote:
>> Mike Taylor wrote:
>>> the window's boxes are getting a cvs error:
>>>
>>> cvs [update aborted]: cannot rename file .new.test_testvirus2 to
>>> test_testvirus2: No such file or directory
>>
>> This happened because the file contained a virus, and the antivirus
>> software noticed it and deleted the file, which confused CVS.
>>
>> DO NOT CHECK IN VIRUSES!
>>
>> This includes stuff that are not real viruses but are designed to
>> trigger antivirus software for testing purposes.
>
> Sorry - this was my fault - I had a MIME torture test suite that was
> checked in, and one of these was a MIME-encoded virus that had
> some ugly MIME in it. I thought I'd defanged it, but obviously either
> it was not enough, or that defanging didn't get included in the 
> released
> version.
>
> Anthony
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