From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk, 183730-submitter@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#183730: zsh: setting SAVEHIST breaks history saving without warning
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 16:14:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200408091514.i79FERRw006079@news01.csr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Clint Adams"'s message of "Mon, 09 Aug 2004 11:07:37 EDT." <20040809150737.GA10711@scowler.net>
Clint Adams wrote:
> > (Why does this `break history saving'? Or is the subject line
> > inaccurate? I'll assume the latter for now.)
>
> I think he set SAVEHIST to some enormously large value which wrapped to
> 0, and thus the saving of his history was "broken", without a clear
> indication why.
What could happen is the value when converted to int appeared negative
--- that would cause it to be set to zero. More care with casts and
conversions ought to fix that.
--
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070
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2003-03-10 4:42 ` Clint Adams
2004-08-08 5:21 ` Clint Adams
2004-08-09 9:50 ` Peter Stephenson
2004-08-09 15:07 ` Clint Adams
2004-08-09 15:14 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
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