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

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/8/11 11:12 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:

> I might be able to finesse this particular case based on the state that
> readline exports to the calling application.  

I think I was able to do that.  Try the attached patch; it works for me.
It identifies a single specific common case and allows the history to be
saved in that case.  I think that case minimizes the chances of deadlock,
but it requires much more testing before I will be convinced.  Please help
me out by testing it.

Yes, I know that it's not 100% safe and will run unsafe functions from a
signal handler.  I will devise a better fix for later, but that will
require changes to readline (so it can catch SIGHUP) that will have to
wait.

Chet
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