Bug#179056: marked as done (vim: Crash on too long argument on keypress)

Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:33:20 -0800

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Package: vim
Version: 6.1.048-1
Severity: normal

I provided vim with a single very long argument, like:
 $ vim "$(cat something)"

"something" is filled with lines of filenames; output from "find".
This appears to happen if the argument is over 1K bytes.

<r/1043662594.558_5:2,S^@./Mail/tu/cur/104343424Illegal file name
First, vim complains "Illegal filename". If I press 'i' to start editing and
then press Enter, it says:

Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV
Vim: preserving files...
Vim: Finished.
Segmentation fault

Of course, such a long name makes no sense, but vim should crash on it.

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux s010581 2.4.18 #1 Thu May 30 18:14:16 CEST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB

Versions of packages vim depends on:
ii  dpkg                     1.10.9          Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  libc6                    2.2.5-14.3      GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgpmg1                 1.19.6-12       General Purpose Mouse Library [lib
ii  libncurses5              5.2.20020112a-8 Shared libraries for terminal hand

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From: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
To: "W.J.A. Verheijen" <W.J.A.Verheijen@xs2mail.com>
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Subject: Re: Bug#179056: vim: Crash on too long argument on keypress
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On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 09:13:49PM +0100, W.J.A. Verheijen wrote:
> > I tried with a 3000 lines file generated via find, but I was unable to
> > reproduce the bug. Are you still able to?
> > 
> > If not I will close this bug.
> No, I am not able to reproduce it on my system either.
> Please close this bug.

Done, thanks.

Cheers.

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