X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com
X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 12:10:49 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: VIM I/O error with Vista SP1 RC
Message-ID: <20080204111049.GC5866@calimero.vinschen.de>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References: <020320081746 DOT 24966 DOT 47A5FE040009D77900006186220073583409020E9A080CD29D AT comcast DOT net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <020320081746.24966.47A5FE040009D77900006186220073583409020E9A080CD29D@comcast.net>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09)
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:cygwin-unsubscribe-archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

On Feb  3 17:46, r DOT chuang AT comcast DOT net wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Recently I installed Vista SP1 RC  v.668 (Vista Vista Ultimate) with Cygwin DLL 1.5.25.
> 
> Now VIM seems to fail to write out files properly.  Here are the symptoms
> 
> 1. If I delete the last characters in a file and write it out from inside VIM the last character is converted into a '\n' (newline character)
> 
> 2. If I delete the last line in a file and write it out that line remains in the file
> 
> 3. If I delete content from the middle of the file a equal amount of the end of the file is duplicated at the end of the file so the file size remains the same.
> 
> Seems like someone (most likely Vista) is writing out the same buffer size and not writing out a smaller buffer.  The same version of VIM worked fine before the Vista RC1 update.
> 
> Has anyone seen this problem?   or should I download  the source to VIM and try to debug it.

I tried the same on Vista x86 SP1 RC1 v.744 as well as on Vista x86_64
SP1 RC1 v.668.  I can't reproduce this problem.  Vim works as advertised.


Corinna

-- 
Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Project Co-Leader          cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/