Bug#606957: vim: Vim segfaults while sending clipboard content to another application

Sat Mar 3 20:54:37 UTC 2012

reopen 606957
thanks

On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 03:34:18PM -0500, James McCoy wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 08:12:59AM -0500, James McCoy wrote:
> > tag 606957 unreproducible
> > thanks
> > 
> > On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:37:26AM +0100, Marcin Szewczyk, Wodny wrote:
> > > Test case:
> > > - 9MB text file
> > > - Iceweasel 3.5.16 with an open tab containing:
> > >     <html>
> > >     <body>
> > >     <textarea rows="24" cols="80"></textarea>
> > >     </body>
> > >     </html>
> > > 
> > > in .vimrc:
> > > vmap <C-c> "+y
> > > 
> > > 1) Select contents of the 9MB file.
> > > 2) Hit ^C
> > > 3) Focus on the textarea in Iceweasel
> > > 4) Hit ^V
> > > 5) Wait for Vim's SEGV
> > 
> > I waited and instead the text field received the whole paste and Vim was
> > still running.  Iceweasel was very CPU intensive when doing the paste
> > (and when clearing the textarea between attempts to reproduce) but other
> > than that I didn't see any abnormal behavior.
> 
> Closing since I haven't been able to reproduce and there was no update
> from the submitter.

Of course, I end up reproducing it (slightly differently) when looking into
#537632.  I'm not sure how related these are, so I'll leave them unmerged for
now.

-- 
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>
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