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From: Jeremy Hetzler <jeremyhetzler AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:27:52 -0400
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I have noticed this problem as well.

- "vi /etc/hosts": segfaults
- "vi /c/Windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts": works
- "cd $HOME; ln -s /c/Windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts foo; vi foo": works

I get similar behavior with the other symlinks in /etc.

CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 box 1.7.9(0.237/5/3) 2011-03-29 10:10 i686 Cygwin
Windows 7 x64

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On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Andrew DeFaria
<Andrew DOT DeFaria AT tellabs DOT com> wrote:
>
> Just started happening recently:
>
> $ vi /etc/hosts
> :wq
> $ vi /etc/hosts
> :w
> Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV
>
> Vim: Finished.
> Segmentation fault
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> Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
> Drive carefully. It's not only cars that can be "recalled" by their maker.%
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