1.7.5: vim SEGV on write of /etc/hosts

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

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. ;-)

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