On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 12:14:37PM -0500, Ted Hatfield wrote: > > Can someone verify this bug for me please and suggest a fix. > > Error description: > > Using less -E or more to display a file that is less than a full page, > while then displaying a nonexistent file causes a segmentation fault.
I was able to recrerate the symptoms using more, but not "less -E". > For example on a newly built system you can > > less -E /etc/group bogusfile > > > This will display the file ending with > > /etc/group (file 1 of 2) (END) - Next: bogusfile > > when you press space or return it gives > > Segmentation fault: 11 I did: g1-18(6.2-S)[1] cd /tmp g1-18(6.2-S)[2] head /etc/group >group g1-18(6.2-S)[3] less -E group fubar and didn't see a problem Using more(1), I got: g1-18(6.2-S)[5] more group fubar # $FreeBSD: src/etc/group,v 1.32.2.1 2006/03/06 22:23:10 rwatson Exp $ # wheel:*:0:root,david daemon:*:1: kmem:*:2: sys:*:3: tty:*:4: operator:*:5:root mail:*:6: bin:*:7: Segmentation fault (core dumped) g1-18(6.2-S)[6] This is with: g1-18(6.2-S)[6] uname -a FreeBSD g1-18.catwhisker.org. 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #464: Thu Aug 2 06:16:43 PDT 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/common/S1/obj/usr/src/sys/CANARY i386 g1-18(6.2-S)[7] less -V less 406 Copyright (C) 1984-2005 Mark Nudelman less comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. For information about the terms of redistribution, see the file named README in the less distribution. Homepage: http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less g1-18(6.2-S)[8] >... Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anything and everything is a (potential) cat toy. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.
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