Re: [bash-bug] no local bash_history created or written to if existing (~/.bash_history

[Andreas Schwab]

"Dr. Werner Fink" <werner@suse.de> writes:

> On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 12:02:53PM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> > 
>> > Does this mean that the attached patch could also not work
>> > on some systems? Or does this interfere with the readline
>> > library?
>> 
>> Since longjmp is not on the list of functions that is safe to call
>> from a signal handler, yes, that's what it means.  OTOH, this shows
>> promise as a solution.
>
> OK, that means only for systems with HAVE_POSIX_SIGSETJMP
> defined.  At least this provides a (local) solution here

sigsetjmp is the same as setjmp.  Both will lead to deadlocks.

Andreas.

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