Bug 152968 – sdiff: subsidiary program $EDITOR failed

Bug 152968 - sdiff: subsidiary program $EDITOR failed

Summary:	sdiff: subsidiary program $EDITOR failed

Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 152967

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Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	diffutils (Show other bugs)
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Version:	3.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity low
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Assigned To:	Tim Waugh
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Reported:	2005-03-31 09:59 EST by Rangan Chidambara Kuttalam Pillai
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:07 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2005-03-31 10:00:58 EST
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Description Rangan Chidambara Kuttalam Pillai 2005-03-31 09:59:15 EST

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.4) Gecko/20050318 Red Hat/1.4.4-1.3.5

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 10:00:58 EST


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 152967 ***

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