X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 12:10:49 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: VIM I/O error with Vista SP1 RC Message-ID: <20080204111049.GC5866@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <020320081746.24966.47A5FE040009D77900006186220073583409020E9A080CD29D@comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <020320081746.24966.47A5FE040009D77900006186220073583409020E9A080CD29D@comcast.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Feb 3 17:46, r.chuang@comcast.net wrote: > Hi, > > Recently I installed Vista SP1 RC v.668 (Vista Vista Ultimate) with Cygwin DLL 1.5.25. > > Now VIM seems to fail to write out files properly. Here are the symptoms > > 1. If I delete the last characters in a file and write it out from inside VIM the last character is converted into a '\n' (newline character) > > 2. If I delete the last line in a file and write it out that line remains in the file > > 3. If I delete content from the middle of the file a equal amount of the end of the file is duplicated at the end of the file so the file size remains the same. > > Seems like someone (most likely Vista) is writing out the same buffer size and not writing out a smaller buffer. The same version of VIM worked fine before the Vista RC1 update. > > Has anyone seen this problem? or should I download the source to VIM and try to debug it. I tried the same on Vista x86 SP1 RC1 v.744 as well as on Vista x86_64 SP1 RC1 v.668. I can't reproduce this problem. Vim works as advertised. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/