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Re: 1.7.5: vim SEGV on write of /etc/hosts
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
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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. ;-)
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