CVS - Limitation on # of Repsoitories

[Gumby]

I have been told that there is a limit to the number of repositories
you can have - somewhere around 300. If this is in fact true, is it
an inetd or xinetd limit and is there an easy way around the limit?
We are on CVS 1.12.12, though we also use CVS 1.11 due to some Eclipse
limitations that I won't go into. Can someone either confirm or deny
this rumor?

Thanks,
Gumby.

[Larry Jones]

Post by Gumby
I have been told that there is a limit to the number of repositories
you can have - somewhere around 300. If this is in fact true, is it
an inetd or xinetd limit and is there an easy way around the limit?

There's no limit in CVS itself. If you're using pserver, then there are
limits imposed by [x]inted, sometime severe ones, but they can be worked
around by having [x]inetd run a script that then runs CVS with the
necessary arguments. Even then, there usually is some limit on command
line length that will come into play eventually. CVS 1.12 adds the
--allow-root-regexp option which can significantly reduce the required
command line length.