Re: revisiting history-file rewriting

[Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>]

Wayne Davison wrote:
> This patch adds the option HIST_OVERWRITE that is off by default.  This
> changes the default history-rewriting strategy to one that uses the name
> $HISTFILE.new for writing out the history lines, and then renaming it
> over $HISTFILE when it is done (both actions happen with the history
> file locked).

How would this change the result when multiple shells exit at once?
I'm not entirely clear how the locking affects the fact that multiple
shells want to rewrite the file in this case.

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