Ag. D. Hatzimanikas wrote: > On Wed, Jul 04, at 11:20 Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> `./ed </dev/null` no longer hangs >> >> The patch is no longer required. >> >> I see no reason not to upgrade. >> > > In 0.6 there is another infinite loop (reported by Karsten Hopp), > which occurs when you search backwards in the buffer. > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ed/2007-07/msg00000.html > > There is a pre-release with the fix, but if you can't wait for 0.7, > you can find a patch that fixes the bug (I verified it), in that same > thread. > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ed/2007-07/msg00002.html
Thanks Ag. We'll go slow on this until it gets sorted out. From the best I can tell, ed-0.2 with the patch we use works fine. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page