From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27065 invoked by alias); 13 Jul 2011 13:50:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Users List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 16127 Received: (qmail 29835 invoked from network); 13 Jul 2011 13:50:33 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED, FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_SC_TOP_CIDR8,NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received-SPF: pass (ns1.primenet.com.au: SPF record at m.gmane.org designates 80.91.229.12 as permitted sender) X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: zsh-users@zsh.org From: Cesar Romani Subject: Re: locking failed for /home/whoever/.zhistory: no such file or directory Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:50:07 -0500 Message-ID: References: <201107101653.p6AGrute004254@pws-pc.ntlworld.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 190.237.120.222 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080213 Thunderbird/2.0.0.12 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 In-Reply-To: <201107101653.p6AGrute004254@pws-pc.ntlworld.com> On 10/07/2011 11:53 a.m., Peter Stephenson wrote: > 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. But my .zhistory is always empty. Isn't there a workaround for it? With zsh 4.3.10 I didn't have that problem. Best regards, -- Cesar