From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ditsydh.syd.dit.csiro.au ([130.155.128.18]) by archone.tamu.edu with SMTP id <22537>; Tue, 27 Aug 1991 12:47:00 -0500 Received: by ditsydh.syd.dit.csiro.au id AA24251 (5.64+/IDA/DIT-0.9 for rc@archone.tamu.edu); Wed, 28 Aug 91 03:46:31 +1000 From: John Mackin Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1991 12:39:17 -0500 Actual-Date: Wed, 28 Aug 91 03:39:17 +1000 To: The rc Mailing List Subject: Re: 1 (global) history file In-Reply-To: <9108270832.AA22315@analytikerna.se> Message-Id: <9108280339.23377.rc.bagiy@syd.dit.csiro.au> X-Face: 39seV7n\`#asqOFdx#oj/Uz*lseO_1n9n7rQS;~ve\e`&Z},nU1+>0X^>mg&M.^X$[ez>{F k5[Ah<7xBWF-@-ru?& @4K4-b`ydd^`(n%Z{ Paul says Byron says global history is good; and he likes it too. Chris has trouble with it. Bengt has no trouble with it. My story: I've _always_ used one history file per "display" (even pre-X, i.e. V8, which is why the quotes). I love it, and hate it when some of the windows are too remote to write to the history. _But_ -- ever since I started getting involved with NFS, and _especially_ since moving to a Sun platform, I have had a _lot_ of trouble with it. Clearly, the NFS writes interfere with each other; I haven't read the source to prove this but I am sure this is what is happening -- they all think they know where to append, even though they don't really. I am wondering if opening the history O_APPEND would help? Perhaps someone with NFS source handy and a tad of time could have a quick read and advise us on this. Even though it causes me problems, I won't switch back, because it _mostly_ works and I prefer a mostly-working global history to fully-working per-window history. OK, John.