[Techtalk] Rescue data in a hung vi process?
Amanda Babcock
alb at quandary.org
Wed May 8 15:48:30 EST 2002
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 12:29:03PM -0700, Laurel Fan wrote:
> On the other hand, if vi crashed, it may well have done so because of
> a memory bug that also caused it to lose some of your data.
Interesting.
vi didn't actually exit, though. It's still running and responds to
signals. Could it still be a memory bug?
Interestingly, I just remembered /var/tmp/vi.recover and tried to run
vi -r on the file, and vi -r CRASHED. It complained that it couldn't
recover line 21 and line 22, and put ^@^@^@ in the command line, and
exited.
Could a memory bug cause the vi.recover file to be corrupt?
I have the feeling I'm not going to get anything out of this.
It's been educational, anyway. Thanks for all the help!
Amanda
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