From: Wayne Davison <wayned@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>,
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 14:41:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080305224158.GB9620@herod.dreamhost.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080305202936.GA24616@scowler.net>
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 03:29:36PM -0500, Clint Adams wrote:
> As Sven notes, any history added before exiting will make it into the
> history file despite the error message.
The history being added is the appending going on due to SHARE_HISTORY.
The error is referring to the inability to rewrite the history file on
exit, and it is actually failing (because the write-new, then rename
steps would cause the file to change ownership). If incremental history
updating was not happening, the failed rewrite would indeed not save
anything new. The "no such file or directory" error string is
presumably a left-over errno that Peter noticed.
Aside: I like to make sure to never mix user history and root history,
so I define a different HISTFILE for root (e.g. .zhist_$USER).
..wayne..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-05 22:42 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
2008-03-05 22:41 ` Wayne Davison [this message]
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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