patch 8.1.0318: the getftype() test may fail for char devices commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/3b3a506f57a397d83db361be35189c591bff10fb Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Wed Aug 22 20:16:16 2018 +0200 patch 8.1.0318: the getftype() test may fail for char devices Problem: The getftype() test may fail for char devices if the file disappeared in between the listing and the getftype() call. Solution: Ignore empty result. (Ozaki Kiichi, closes #3360)

README_src.txt for version 8.1 of Vim: Vi IMproved.

The source archive contains the files needed to compile Vim on Unix systems.
It is packed for Unix systems (NL line separator).

For more information, see the README.txt file that comes with the runtime
archive (vim-8.1-rt.tar.gz).  To be able to run Vim you MUST get the runtime
archive too!