From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27917 invoked from network); 1 Jan 2009 04:20:17 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 1 Jan 2009 04:20:17 -0000 Received-SPF: none (ns1.primenet.com.au: domain at sunsite.dk does not designate permitted sender hosts) Received: (qmail 11318 invoked from network); 1 Jan 2009 04:20:12 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 1 Jan 2009 04:20:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 10200 invoked by alias); 1 Jan 2009 04:20:08 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 26222 Received: (qmail 10191 invoked from network); 1 Jan 2009 04:20:08 -0000 Received: from bifrost.dotsrc.org (130.225.254.106) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 1 Jan 2009 04:20:08 -0000 Received: from prunille.vinc17.org (vinc17.pck.nerim.net [213.41.242.187]) by bifrost.dotsrc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CBB080308BE for ; Thu, 1 Jan 2009 05:20:03 +0100 (CET) Received: by prunille.vinc17.org (Postfix, from userid 501) id 781962F83F4A; Thu, 1 Jan 2009 05:19:54 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 05:19:54 +0100 From: Vincent Lefevre To: Richard Hartmann Cc: 412875@bugs.debian.org, Zsh Workers Subject: Re: History file corruption on NFS Message-ID: <20090101041954.GC17090@prunille.vinc17.org> Mail-Followup-To: Richard Hartmann , 412875@bugs.debian.org, Zsh Workers References: <2d460de70812310758r5985578clcedbe11a4fb8a630@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <2d460de70812310758r5985578clcedbe11a4fb8a630@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer-Info: http://www.vinc17.org/mutt/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18-vl-r26315 (2008-12-20) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92.1/8822/Thu Jan 1 03:24:59 2009 on bifrost X-Virus-Status: Clean On 2008-12-31 16:58:18 +0100, Richard Hartmann wrote: > in your bug report[1] about zsh using the wrong kind of lock > in lockhistfile, you mentioned wanting to look into the > issue. Did you have time to do that? The problem has been fixed upstream. See the following thread: http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2008/msg00479.html Wayne Davison wrote a simpler patch, which was included in zsh on 2008-05-04, after version 4.3.6. It works in practice and I've also just re-checked the code. AFAIK, this patch hasn't been backported to Debian's package (I didn't see a HIST_FCNTL_LOCK option in the package version 4.3.6-7). So, the Debian bug should remain open. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)