cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Re: [ast-developers] Segfault with inacessible $HISTFILE --------
> BTW: The OpenSolaris people hit two similar issues with > ast-ksh.2008-11-04: > 1. If HISTFILE is set to /dev/null a login shell will exit What would you expect to happen? (1) Treat this as if the open had failed and try creating a history file in /tmp? (2) Do not create a history file and do not log history entries? > 2. There is an old RFE which requests support for using a FIFO file as > HISTFILE. I'm not sure whether it is possible to get it working with > ksh93's history file format but it may be usefull (and would solve [1], > too (assuming the implementation simply sends the data in "append" mode > to all fds which do not support "seek")). The history file needs seekability in order to access previous history records. Otherwise, what is the point of history? However, it should be possible to use memory for the history file. > > David Korn [email protected] _______________________________________________ ast-developers mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-developers
