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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
To: zsh-workers <zsh-workers@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: Failing to write to history file if containing directory doesn't exist
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:38:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710081338.l98Dc2br012284@news01.csr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dbfc82860710080508o3ef1de0br957caf39bb2aa19f@mail.gmail.com>

Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> > I'd have thought it was a reasonable expectation that the directory
> > already existed.  You can always add "mkdir -p ${HISTFILE:h}" when you
> > set HISTFILE, if you need to.
> 
> Yes, sure, but if we assume that this isn't always the case, would
> code that dealt with this case be interesting for inclusion?

I'm frankly lukewarm about adding code for stuff that can already be
done in shell code if you need it, but if you think this is likely to
happen in practice I'll add your C code.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>                  Software Engineer
CSR PLC, Churchill House, Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road
Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070


  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-08 13:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-08 10:09 Nikolai Weibull
2007-10-08 10:15 ` Peter Stephenson
2007-10-08 12:08   ` Nikolai Weibull
2007-10-08 13:38     ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2007-10-08 14:05       ` Nikolai Weibull
2007-10-08 14:14         ` Clint Adams

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