hi rob, i am using vi also. lately we added some boundary checks to prevent buffer overflows. i did not check the latest svn but the version 2008-06 gave me some ^@ in gdb and i suspect there is still some off-by-one. If it still crashes i could not check (no time),
re, wh Rob Landley wrote: > On Monday 14 July 2008 01:42:02 Denys Vlasenko wrote: >> On Sunday 13 July 2008 14:45, Rob Landley wrote: >>> Do a make defconfig, and then run busybox vi on the attached txt file >>> (after uncompressing it). It segfaults for me, on both an x86-64 glibc >>> system and an i686 uClibc system. >> Thanks, will take a look. >> >> busybox vi seems to be lacking active users :( >> For one, I don't use it too, so bugs go unnoticed. > > I'm plugging the sucker into Firmware Linux again. (I've disabled toybox > almost entirely for the moment, only used for oneit and patch.) > > The huge piles of bugs and missing features I found from 2003 through 2006? > Pretty much from plugging the sucker into a full development environment, > building a Linux system using it, and then running the result and trying to > debug it under itself. > > I am, however, still banging on the release version, not svn. > > Expect more bugs. :) > > Rob > > P.S The "optimize cursor movement" option of VI _totally_does_not_work_. > You > have to disable that or the screen is garbage. (For me, anyway...) _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox
