Hello,
Elvis 2.2.0 has a bug causing it to exit 1 and not save any
files if started in a directory which contains a directory
"tags". This is fixed by the following patch:
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Index: elvis-2.2.0/tagelvis.c
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--- elvis-2.2.0.orig/tagelvis.c 2009-03-03 20:44:07.000000000 +0530
+++ elvis-2.2.0/tagelvis.c 2009-03-03 21:10:51.000000000 +0530
@@ -672,6 +672,7 @@
CHAR *cp; /* for scanning the line */
long offset; /* offset of the tag within this buffer */
int i;
+ DIRPERM perm;
/* Destroy the old list, if any */
tefreedef(buf);
@@ -701,7 +702,8 @@
* necessary because the ioopen() function displays an error
* message when the file it's trying to read doesn't exist.
*/
- if (dirperm("tags") == DIR_NEW)
+ perm = dirperm("tags");
+ if (perm == DIR_NEW || perm == DIR_DIRECTORY)
return;
/* open the file */