[Based on a very quick look at the code, this would seem to be true.
And perhaps has been true since the CVSROOT/users feature was first
added.

Needs a testcase so it stays fixed.  Or does the fact that few people
have noticed the problem tell us something about whether CVSROOT/users
is really needed or just a creeping feature?

-kingdon]

Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 10:16:55 -0600
From: Alexandre Parenteau <alexp@strata3d.com>
To: bug-cvs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Possible bug in cvs-1.9.26 & 1.9.27

Hello Jim,

May be I don't understand either.

The cvs documentation (that I read with my favorite emacs) tells me that
the format for CVSROOT/users is USER:VALUE with a line for each user,
like this :

auser:auser@anemail
auser2:auser2@anemail2

And since "getline" returns a \n at the end of each line :

// edit.c line 840
while (getline (&line, &line_len, fp) >= 0)
{
    // line= "auser:auser@anemail\n", p= "auser", l= 5
    if (strncmp (line, p, len) == 0
	&& line[len] == ':')
    {
	char *cp;
	args.notifyee = xstrdup (line + len + 1);
	// args.notifyee= auser@anemail\n
	cp = strchr (args.notifyee, ':'); // so why ':' ?
	if (cp != NULL)
	    *cp = '\0';
	break;
    }
}

So why this extra ':' ? Should not be a '\n' ? Assuming your notify
contains "ALL mail %s -s "CVS notification"", the line is filled with
"ALL mail auser@anemail\n -s "CVS notification"" and bash complains :
"-s "CVS notification", unknown command".

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