Bug 152967

Summary:	sdiff: subsidiary program $EDITOR failed
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Rangan Chidambara Kuttalam Pillai <rchidamb>
Component:	diffutils	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Rangan Chidambara Kuttalam Pillai 2005-03-31 14:57:43 UTC

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Description of problem:
sdiff shows the following error while making changes using the editor.

sdiff: subsidiary program `$EDITOR` failed


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
diffutils-2.8.1-8

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.echo hello >a; echo bye >b 
2.sdiff -o new a b 
3.Then enter 'eb' at % prompt.  This will bring up $EDITOR. 
4.Save, quit. 


Actual Results:  sdiff displays the following error.

sdiff: subsidiary program `$EDITOR` failed

Expected Results:  No error messages.

Additional info:

This bug has been already reported in gnu mailing list.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2003-01/msg00121.html 

Also a patch available at the URL
I tested the patch locally and it seem to resolve the problem.

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2005-03-31 15:01:11 UTC

*** Bug 152968 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2005-04-06 15:37:39 UTC

That patch is wrong, but the correct patch has been applied now.  Thanks for the
report.