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Date:      Tue, 20 Oct 1998 20:16:22 +0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: amusing vi bug 
Message-ID:  <199810201216.UAA11514@spinner.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Oct 1998 20:58:38 %2B1000." <199810201058.UAA23848@godzilla.zeta.org.au> 

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Bruce Evans wrote:
> After
> 
> 	umask 777      # silly season
> 	rm -f /tmp/z
> 	touch /tmp/z
> 	vi /tmp/z
> 
> vi recurses endlessly in file_open() and files up /tmp with temporary
> files until the filesysem containing /tmp runs out of indodes or some
> other limit is hit.

Hmm..  mk[s]temp() bug in libc.

> This may have been fixed.  contrib/nvi is 8 versions out of date
> (1.79 - 1.71).

Eh?  ":version" reports:
Version 1.79 (10/23/96) The CSRG, University of California, Berkeley.

> Bruce

Cheers,
-Peter



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