Re: History not saved when closing terminal while bash is sourcing a script

[Tomas Janousek]

Hi,

On Sun, Aug 04, 2019 at 01:42:12PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 8/3/19 11:05 AM, Tomas Janousek wrote:
> I don't have or use tmux, but I'm going to guess that `kill-window' sends
> a SIGHUP to the process group and follows it up with a SIGKILL. The
> `source' turns off saving to history -- the `source' gets saved in the
> history list, not the commands it runs -- and is still running when the
> SIGHUP arrives. The SIGHUP causes the shell to exit without saving the
> history because history is turned off when the signal handler runs.

So this means `source' shouldn't ever be used in interactive shells if one
cares about their shell history, right? I'll file an issue in the Midnight
Commander bug tracker to use a shell function instead. It might be worth
documenting the behaviour, though, as it is quite suprising -- shell functions
don't need to turn off saving to history, so why should `source'?

-- 
Tomáš Janoušek, a.k.a. Pivník, a.k.a. Liskni_si, http://work.lisk.in/