[SVN-4815] Svnadmin fails on AIX

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.10.x
• Component/s: libsvn_subr

Environment

OS- AIX 7.2

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Reshma V Kumar
• Created: 29/Apr/19 07:14
• Updated: 02/Jul/19 05:29

Description

I am testing subversion 1.10.4 on AIX 7.2

1. oslevel -s
   7200-03-00-0000

While executing the following command , it gives error.

1. svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs /reshma/svn
   svnadmin: E000009: Can't write '/reshma/svn/db/current' atomically
   svnadmin: E000009: Can't flush file '/reshma/svn/db' to disk: A file descriptor does not refer to an open file.

This is because in AIX, fsync called on a directory returns errno=EBADF which makes subversions/libsvn_subr/io.c:svn_io_flush_to_disk {{}}fail.

To fix this, I created a patch. Here I am checking if the platform is AIX.