X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=4.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,BOTNET,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,TW_LR,TW_MK,TW_RW,TW_WX,TW_XR X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <4C2133E2.6010704@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:06:26 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: 1.7.5: vim SEGV on write of /etc/hosts References: <4C212153 DOT 8010804 AT acm DOT org> <27D7F4C907BCB14FAF95CC4E25AB1FE6AF5575 AT ex2 DOT AdBriteInc DOT local> In-reply-to: <27D7F4C907BCB14FAF95CC4E25AB1FE6AF5575@ex2.AdBriteInc.local> Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 6/22/2010 5:17 PM, 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. > > -bash-3.2$ ls -l /etc/hosts > lrwxrwxrwx 1 bross mkgroup-l-d 46 2009-05-19 10:05 /etc/hosts -> > /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/drivers/etc/hosts* > -bash-3.2$ ls -l /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/drivers/etc/hosts > -rwxrwx---+ 1 Administrators SYSTEM 4415 2010-06-22 12:55 > /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/drivers/etc/hosts* Please don't commandeer another thread for your own purposes. If you have something new to report that isn't related to any existing thread, then just send a new email message to the list with the topic of interest. Replying to someone else's message and changing the subject does not make a new thread. On my systems where 'vim' responds as you describe, 'hosts' is read only and owned by SYSTEM. You should check this on yours. I'll concede that a SEGV is not what I expect in this situation though. ;-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple