On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 11:21:22AM +0200, Graham Leggett wrote: > Hi all, > > While trying to do a subversion operation from a MacOSX machine within a > volume mounted from a WinXP share, I am getting the following error: > > subversion/libsvn_subr/io.c:2137: (apr_err=5) > svnadmin: Can't write to file 'rfs-draft/db/write-lock': Input/output error > > It looks like locking isn't supported within APR on MacOSX, or maybe this > is a pure MacOSX limitation.
Probably merely that file locking over SMB/CIFS doesn't work properly, though the error message is weird, suggesting that it's a write() failure rather than a failure-to-lock. truss/strace might help show what syscall is failing if OS X has such a tool. joe
