From: Clint Adams <clint@zsh.org>
To: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>,
369305@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#369305: zsh: failed to write history file /home/sven/.zsh-history: no such file or directory
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 15:29:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080305202936.GA24616@scowler.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803051712.m25HCNk6006441@news01.csr.com>
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 05:12:23PM +0000, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> You haven't said how to reproduce this (all I've seen is above), but
> there are now lots tests in savehistfile() in hist.c for failure to
> write and one of them is being overzealous. Possibly ret is being set
> to -1 without errno being set by the corresponding call, but it sounds
> like there's more to it than that. This should be easy enough to track
> down if you can get it to happen.
With extendedhistory and sharehistory on (I haven't tried anything
else), do a 'sudo -s' or 'sudo zsh', then exit the shell.
As Sven notes, any history added before exiting will make it into the
history file despite the error message.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-05 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2008-03-05 14:44 ` Clint Adams
2008-03-05 17:12 ` Peter Stephenson
2008-03-05 20:29 ` Clint Adams [this message]
2008-03-05 22:41 ` Wayne Davison
2008-03-06 10:19 ` Peter Stephenson
2008-03-06 17:02 ` Wayne Davison
2008-03-06 17:16 ` Wayne Davison
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