Hi,
I'm having a problem using the Copy module on a ClearCase view that's been
set as "readonly" (i.e. ct chview -readonly <view tag>). I want to copy a
file out of this view and put it in another directory that's outside of
ClearCase. The strange thing is that the copy command actually copies
correctly. The problem is that it returns a "0" errorcode because of the
fact that the view is readonly. I guess "copy" still tries to write
something to the view even though it's only doing a copy.
e.g.
....
my $ret = copy("$basepath/StdOutput/$file", "$stdout_dir/$file");
print "return is $ret. $!\n";
....
This returns:
... copying testfile.txt
return is 0. Read-only file system
The file "testfile.txt" is successfully copied to the correct location, but
I have some other things to do in the script based on the return code. The
"0" return code is messing that all up because the operation is in fact
successful.
The only solution I can think of is to just use a "system" command with Unix
"cp" (I'm on Solaris 8). I couldn't really figure out any other options
from just looking at the man pages.
Does anyone have other possible solutions or suggestions if I'm doing
something wrong?
Thanks...
Tony
