I forgot to mention that, while I was able to read the history file, the
new commands typed were not written to it, and this is the problem I would
like to solve
thanks

Pier Paolo Grassi


Il giorno sab 2 ott 2021 alle ore 19:52 Pier Paolo Grassi <
pierpaolog@gmail.com> ha scritto:

> Hello, I was trying to implement a per project shell history file.
> Some of these projects are on windows shared mounted via cifs. when I open
> those files as history with fc -p I get:
>
> /root/.zshrc:440: locking failed for /mnt/docs/projects/devbox/.history:
> operation not supported: reading anyway
> zsh: locking failed for  /mnt/docs/projects/devbox/.history: operation not
> supported: reading anyway
>
> Is it possible to work around this? is it possibile in zsh to disable
> locking the history file during write operations? I am the only one writing
> to those files so I shouldn't risk a concurrent operation.
> I tried using setopt HIST_FCNTL_LOCK but ended up with an emptied history
> file.
>
> Pier Paolo Grassi
>