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Re: HISTFILE=/dev/null, HISTSIZE=0 removes /dev/null on exit
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: HISTFILE=/dev/null, HISTSIZE=0 removes /dev/null on exit |
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Tue, 20 Oct 2015 14:57:40 -0400 |
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On 10/20/15 2:53 PM, Piotr Grzybowski wrote:
> hey,
>
> just out of curiosity, does this fix it (sorry I just finished when
> you wrote that it had been fixed):
Well, it does, but it's overkill on one hand and doesn't fix the underlying
problem on the other. What you want to avoid is truncating the history
file (HISTSIZE=0) or writing to a temp file and renaming it over a
non-regular file (/dev/null). Those changes are made in the history
library.
Chet
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