Subject: bin/9337: vi recovery coredump
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <mcuddy@fensende.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 02/02/2000 15:36:42
>Number: 9337
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: vi coredumped and left bogus recovery file (which causes coredump)
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: bin-bug-people (Utility Bug People)
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Wed Feb 2 15:36:01 2000
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Mike Cuddy
>Organization:
CyberMiser, Inc.
>Release: Version 1.66 (5/18/96) The CSRG, University of California, Berkeley.
>Environment:
System: NetBSD scrooge.cybermiser.com 1.4 NetBSD 1.4 (SCROOGE) #0: Wed Jul 14 19:21:16 PDT 1999 elric@scrooge.cybermiser.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/SCROOGE i386
>Description:
I was editing in vi, and undid a long string of undo's. vi tossed
it's cookies and sent me the std. recovery mail. doing a "vi -r"
and giving the name of the recovery file causes a further core dump.
I've put up the recovery files on my web site for whomever is
interested in fixing this problem.
http://www.fensende.com/Users/mcuddy/vicore.tar.gz
(~7KB)
>How-To-Repeat:
Problem appears random, but mostly after a large number of undo's
>Fix:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: