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From: Jeremy Hetzler <jeremyhetzler AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:42:51 -0400
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In addition, the segfault only occurs if /etc/hosts is specified on
the command line. This works:

vi
:e /etc/hosts
:w
:q

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Jeremy Hetzler

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Jeremy Hetzler <jeremyhetzler AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> Jeremy Hetzler
> --
>
> 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
>> --
>> Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
>> Drive carefully. It's not only cars that can be "recalled" by their maker.%
>>
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