bin/3170: vi freaks and dump core if user doesn't exist

[Marc Olzheim]

The following reply was made to PR bin/3170; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Marc Olzheim <marcolz at stack.nl>
To: Bill Fenner <fenner at fenron.com>
Cc: Marc Olzheim <marcolz at stack.nl>, bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/3170: vi freaks and dump core if user doesn't exist
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 10:27:11 +0200

 On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:44:27AM -0700, Bill Fenner wrote:
 > It's easy to fail to reproduce it.  Many people have successfully not  
 > reproduced it.  Reproducing it requires following the precise steps I  
 > describe, and many people trying to reproduce it skip some steps or  
 > don't do precisely the same thing, resulting in a non-reproduction.  
 > However, since I have reproduced it on 4.0, 5.0, and can still  
 > reproduce it, using the steps I supplied, on 6.2, can we agree that it  
 > still exists in 6.2?
 
 Well, the missing information seems to have to do with the terminal. I
 managed to reproduce it now. The step that's missing in the description,
 is that this only seems to happen on a virtual terminal on console.
 
 At least, I still haven't reproduced it on any other terminal (emulator).
 
 Apologies, Mark, for missing the award. ;-)
 
 Marc