1.7.5: vim SEGV on write of /etc/hosts

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Wed Jun 23 13:35:00 GMT 2010


On 6/23/2010 3:19 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jun 22 14:17, Bill Ross wrote:
>> Whenever I vi /etc/hosts and write a change I get
>>
>> -bash-3.2$ vi /etc/hosts
>> Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV
>>
>> Tho the change gets written ok. It seems to have started with 1.7.5. No
>> problem seen with other files.
>
> No such problem here.  Can you create an strace, please?
>
> Btw., your /etc/group file needs regenerating.

FWIW, I just updated (though vim didn't need it) via 'setup.exe' to get
everything current and I can't reproduce this problem anymore.

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