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Subject: Re: 'more' segment faults with latest cygwin1.dll (1.7.11)
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On Feb 27 10:14, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> 'more' is segment faulting with the latest Cygwin .DLL (1.7.11).  I
> can reproduce this problem on both a Windows 7 64-bit machine and a
> Windows XP 32-bit machine.
> 
> I've attached the stackdump and cygcheck output.
> 
> Here's how to reproduce the problem:
> 
> 1.  'more' a long text file
> 2.  Use / to search for some text, more will stop at the first match
> 3.  Use 'n' to search for another match.  At this point, it will segment fault
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 reisert root 31246 Jun 24  2010 /usr/bin/more

I can reproduce it as well, but the crash occurs in the application,
not in Cygwin.  Yaakov, this is from the util-linux package, can you
please have a look what happens there?


Corinna

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