This will probably be backported to 1.6.(x+1) if someone tells dev@ what revisions should be backported, or provides patches that we can apply.
(I don't recall why the fixes on trunk weren't backported, but I imagine the threads linked from this thread say why.) Neil Bird wrote on Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 08:23:50 +0000: > Around about 27/01/11 01:40, Johan Corveleyn typed ... >> http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2010-04/0180.shtml >> >> Maybe someone else can comment more on this, and why it wasn't >> backported to 1.6 (or is it?). > > Excellent, yes, that would seem to be it. I did notice the huge number > of counted .tmp files in .svn/tmp but didn't think anything of it. > > The thread petered out with someone trying the 1.7 > svn_io_open_unique_file impl. in a 1.6 build, but I can't see any > feedback from that (so I'm afraid I'm going to cheekily Cc: the guys who > posted that that was being tried!). > > > For now, I think I'm happy to simply be aware of the situation; as I > posted earlier, we're going to split the files up across a no. of diff. > dirs. so hopefully that won't bite us. > > If we are still suffering even after that, I'll try the above patched > myself, and then maybe I'll raise a ticket. > > -- > [neil@fnx ~]# rm -f .signature > [neil@fnx ~]# ls -l .signature > ls: .signature: No such file or directory > [neil@fnx ~]# exit