Stefan Monnier writes:
 > On the other hand `HISTFILE=/dev/null /bin/ksh' will not work if
 > the user's SHELL is not bourne-like, which is more annoying.

Yes I do realize, I was simplifying in that message.

 > And I don't think we can rely on /usr/bin/env being available, so
 > it's not clear how we can reliably set the env var before running
 > ksh unless we do something ugly like `ksh -c "HISTFILE=/dev/null
 > exec ksh"'.

Do you think that there might be a solution that works _and_ is
pretty?  ;-)
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