Red Hat Linux 6.2 - VIM 5.6

[prrar () NITNET COM BR (Paulo Ribeiro)]

Hi, everyone.

As Slackware Linux 7.0's elvis, Red Hat Linux 6.2's vi (vim) has the
HOME bug.

VIM - Vi IMproved 5.6 (2000 Jan 16, compiled Mar  7 2000 12:18:07)
Included patches: 1-3, 5-6, 10-11

[user@linux user]$ export HOME=`perl -e 'print "A" x 1024;'`
[user@linux user]$ vi ~/test
Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV
Vim: Finished.
[user@linux user]$ export HOME=`perl -e 'print "A" x 1010;'`
Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV
Vim: Double signal, exiting
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
[user@linux user]$ gdb vi core
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This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"...
(no debugging symbols found)...
Core was generated by `vi
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from /lib/libtermcap.so.2...(no debugging symbols
found)...
done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_files.so.2...done.
#0  chunk_free (ar_ptr=0x99e80871, p=0x4010f078) at malloc.c:3049
3049    malloc.c: No such file or directory.
(gdb) where
#0  chunk_free (ar_ptr=0x99e80871, p=0x4010f078) at malloc.c:3049
#1  0x40079fba in __libc_free (mem=0x4010f080) at malloc.c:3023
#2  0x806d070 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#3  0x8063ac0 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#4  0x8063239 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#5  0x8064408 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#6  0x8064459 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#7  0x807b4d4 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#8  0x8061dd5 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#9  0x807adac in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#10 0x4003ec68 in __restore ()
    at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/sigaction.c:127
#11 0x40079fba in __libc_free (mem=0x80aa710) at malloc.c:3023
#12 0x806d070 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#13 0x806328f in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#14 0x8064408 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#15 0x8064495 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#16 0x806c24c in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#17 0x807add4 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#18 0x4003ec68 in __restore ()
    at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/sigaction.c:127
#19 0x400795ce in __libc_malloc (bytes=1022) at malloc.c:2696
#20 0x806cc93 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#21 0x806cbbe in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#22 0x806cd45 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#23 0x806c1f6 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#24 0x8063e41 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#25 0x8063eb6 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#26 0x80631a3 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#27 0x806434a in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#28 0x80643e6 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#29 0x805b10c in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#30 0x80499c8 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#31 0x80618b0 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#32 0x400389cb in __libc_start_main (main=0x8060a60 <strcpy+94784>,
argc=2,
    argv=0xbffff344, init=0x8049290 <_init>, fini=0x809024c <_fini>,
    rtld_fini=0x4000ae60 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffff33c)
    at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:92
(gdb) quit

Yours,
Paulo Ribeiro <prrar () nitnet com br>.