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From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: locking failed for /home/whoever/.zhistory: no such file or directory
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 17:53:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201107101653.p6AGrute004254@pws-pc.ntlworld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 10 Jul 2011 09:22:03 CDT." <ivccid$ek3$1@dough.gmane.org>

Cesar Romani wrote:
> I'm using zsh 4.3.12-dev-1
> Whenever I start zsh I always get the following message:
> zsh: locking failed for /home/whoever/.zhistory: no such file or 
> directory: reading anyway

That means a system call to lock the file for reading failed.  It
depends on the file system whether locking is enabled.  So long as you
are not attempting to use the history file with multiple terminals at
once, you shouldn't hit problems.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
Web page now at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/p.w.stephenson/


  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-10 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-10 14:22 Cesar Romani
2011-07-10 16:53 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2011-07-13 13:50   ` Cesar Romani
2011-07-13 14:01     ` Peter Stephenson
2011-07-13 14:54       ` Bart Schaefer
2011-07-13 18:53         ` Peter Stephenson
2011-07-14 15:04           ` Bart Schaefer
2011-07-10 17:13 ` Bart Schaefer

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