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Re: [RFA] A kinder, gentler check for /etc/{passwd,group} changes


On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 01:49:32AM +0900, Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 9 Sep 2001 12:18:08 -0400
>>>> Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> said:
>
>> The /etc/passwd and /etc/group rereading was one of the big reasons why I
>> wanted to release 1.3.3.  It will quiet some mailing list traffic.
>> 
>> So, I'd like to get this into 1.3.3.
>
>But I've never enjoyed this feature.
>
>When I start vim and type `:w', it shows the following message
>and chokes up.
>~ $ vim /etc/passwd
>Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV

Yep.  I think we have a new record.

I release 1.3.3 and 50 minutes later we get a segv bug report.

cgf


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