From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 24 3:24:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mayn.de (airbus.mayn.de [194.145.150.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0ACD615132 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 03:23:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from token@wuff.mayn.de) Received: (qmail 18623 invoked from network); 24 Nov 1999 11:23:38 -0000 Received: from wuff.mayn.de (qmailr@194.145.150.17) by airbus.mayn.de with SMTP; 24 Nov 1999 11:23:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 15813 invoked by uid 603); 24 Nov 1999 11:21:44 -0000 Message-ID: <19991124122144.A15534@wuff.mayn.de> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 12:21:44 +0100 From: Matthias Buelow To: Peng HaiJie , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is a feature or a bug of nvi? References: <199911241204.MAA98904@cn.FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.1i In-Reply-To: <199911241204.MAA98904@cn.FreeBSD.org>; from Peng HaiJie on Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 12:04:40PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peng HaiJie wrote: >/usr/bin/nvi will > :^\Quit - core-dumped >when I am in ex mode and press ^\ or ^$ in my home directory, >but it won't core-dumped if I am not in home directory(such as in /). >Is it a feature or a bug of nvi? Generating the quit signal with ^\ will usually terminate and write a corefile (if coredumpsize limit is > 0). The fact that a corefile from one of the programs you run isn't written into a directory you don't have permission to modify (such as /) can probably be counted as a (rather basic) Unix feature, yes. mkb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message