On Jun 29 18:27, Jeremy Hetzler 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.defa...@tellabs.com> wrote: > > > > Just started happening recently: > > > > $ vi /etc/hosts > > :wq > > $ vi /etc/hosts > > :w > > Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV > > > > Vim: Finished. > > Segmentation fault
Works fine for me. If I'm admin, writing works, if I'm not admin, writing fails with permission denied. Could you please send your cygcheck output per http://cygwin.com/problems.html as well as an strace which shows what happens, like this: $ strace -o vim.trace vim-nox /etc/hosts :wq! Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
