On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:59:29AM +0200, LEVAI Daniel wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 13:55:57 -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:11:46AM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: > > > I have had enough of corrupt ksh history so I had a look at the code to > > > try to fix it. The magical code was very magical so I basically deleted > > > most of it and made ksh history into a flat text file. It handles > > > multiple ksh instances writing to the same text file with locks just > > > like the current ksh does. I haven't noticed any differences in > > > behavior running this. > > If one had set HISTFILE='', the old behaviour was to not write a history > file, but the "in memory" history was still working. > With this patch, if I set HISTFILE='' then there will be no command > history at all.
This is the same with current ksh. I did forget to mention to move your history file out of the way before testing this. > > > Daniel > > -- > LIVAI Daniel > PGP key ID = 0x83B63A8F > Key fingerprint = DBEC C66B A47A DFA2 792D 650C C69B BE4C 83B6 3A8F
