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Re: history EINTR bug
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: history EINTR bug |
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Fri, 13 Feb 2015 08:38:44 -0500 |
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On 2/12/15 9:06 AM, gregrwm wrote:
> i now suspect bash does not properly handle EINTR while handling history.
Maybe. There's not enough information here to say.
> this just happened:
> bash: history: write error: Interrupted system call
What command did you use? Writing the history to stdout is different
from writing to a pipe, which is different from using history -a or
history -w to write to a file.
It's difficult to say more without knowing which signal interrupted
the command.
Chet
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