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4 arguments
Problem:
If your version of the inetd networking daemon, which is used to start the CVS pserver server, only allows 4 arguments, and you want to specify more than 4 repositories with --allow-root, you have a problem. .


Discussion:
One simple fix/workaround is to have inetd run a short perl or shell script which runs CVS, for example:

#!/bin/sh exec cvs --allow-root=a --allow-root=b pserver

A possibly better solution would be to provide a way to get the list of repositories from a config file probably a new global config file whose location would be specified with a new --global-config option). Someone has proposed the ability to specify a file containing only allowed roots, but seems to me that the global config idea accomplishes the same things and is much more expandable for the future

Derek Price, CVS developer and technical editor of Essential CVS (Essentials line from O'Reilly Press) , and others offer consulting services and training through Ximbiot.