From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: corrupt history file on NFS
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 04:12:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070116031230.GM10583@prunille.vinc17.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <070115190043.ZM25669@torch.brasslantern.com>
On 2007-01-15 19:00:43 -0800, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> This suggests that we might be able to work around it by always having
> zsh seek to one btye short of the file size, and then read that byte,
> before it attempts to append anything to the file.
If you have a patch, I can test it to make sure this solves the problem.
> However, it's really not zsh's fault: NFS writes are not required to
> be atomic, and zsh does not know the file isn't local. So this would
> have to be controlled by an option, or something, so as not to
> penalize cases that don't need NFS "safety".
An option would be OK for me, but would this really penalize cases
with local files in practice?
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-16 3:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-14 20:25 Vincent Lefevre
2007-01-15 3:27 ` Wayne Davison
2007-01-16 2:03 ` Vincent Lefevre
2007-01-16 3:00 ` Bart Schaefer
2007-01-16 3:12 ` Vincent Lefevre [this message]
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