Re: [vile] writing an empty file with nonewline

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 22 May 2006, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Mon, 22 May 2006, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
>
> > There seems to be a problem when writing out an empty file when
> > nonewline is set (see http://bugs.debian.org/368007).
> ....
> > Not sure exactly where the root of the problem lies; setup_file_region()
> > seems to copy that -1 value from bp->b_bytecount, which should similarly
> > be unsigned.
>
> The problem is in bsizes(), has been there since I changed B_COUNT to an 
> unsigned a year ago (21 May 2005).  Here's a paste from the fix I just
> checked in:

Here's an interim patch:

        ftp://invisible-island.net/temp/vile-9.5h2.patch.gz

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