Re: If $HISTFILE is set to /dev/null and you execute more commands than $HISTFILESIZE, /dev/null is deleted.

[Greg Wooledge]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 09:58:43AM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 1/30/15 4:36 AM, crocket wrote:
> > It turns out that tramp on emacs 24.4 sets $HISTFILE to /dev/null and
> > makes bash delete /dev/null when I kill emacs.
> > 
> > When /dev/null is not a character device but a regular file, a lot of
> > programs freeze.
> 
> This indicates a permissions or file system problem.

My guess was that (s)he's running bash as root, which accounts for the
ability to delete /dev/null and recreate it as an ordinary file.