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Re: Default time for unmarked history lines
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Default time for unmarked history lines |
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Mon, 11 Jan 2016 09:25:05 -0500 |
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On 1/7/16 11:21 PM, Eduardo A. Bustamante López wrote:
> BTW, the timestamp = 0 thing is a bug in readline. Since it uses (time_t) 0 as
> a return value for errors in history_get_time, and later there's code similar
> to this:
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> t = history_get_time(...)
> if(t)
> strftime(...)
> else
> strcat(..., "??")
>
> It considers 0 as an invalid value.
It's not a bug; it's a distinguished value the history library won't write.
All bets are off if you manually change the history file.
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