[Bug 442922] [NEW] Files/directories created in /var/tmp/vi.recover in absurd quantities - will exhaust inodes rapidly

[Ed Hynan]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: nvi

% lsb_release -rd
Description:	Ubuntu 9.04
Release:	9.04
% apt-cache policy nvi
nvi:
  Installed: 1.81.6-5
  Candidate: 1.81.6-5
  Version table:
 *** 1.81.6-5 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


At times nvi will create large numbers of entries in /var/tmp/vi.recover - 
other times it does not.  I have not found a way to trigger this.

I just discovered this by running out of inodes (9.04 installed on new
notebook two weeks ago).  So many that rm -rf ./* failed with argument
list too long; I had to invoke rm on subsets several times.

Just after clearing /var/tmp/vi.recover I did a simple two line edit on a
Makefile, then quit vi. That resulted in over 2000 entries in /var/tmp/vi.recover
but as I write this bug report nvi is not repeating the bug.

Checking the filesystem of an 8.10 system I find 1187 entries accumulated
over about 10 months of use, so the bug wasn't active there.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: nvi 1.81.6-5
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: nvi
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic x86_64

** Affects: nvi (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug

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Files/directories created in /var/tmp/vi.recover in absurd quantities - will exhaust inodes rapidly
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