This quirk has been there since rev 1.1: if HISTFILE isn't set, str_val
should return null, not NULL. Since the check against NULL fails we try
to open("", ...), which of course fails.
ok?
Index: history.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /d/cvs/src/bin/ksh/history.c,v
retrieving revision 1.79
diff -u -p -p -u -r1.79 history.c
--- history.c 15 Jan 2018 14:58:05 -0000 1.79
+++ history.c 15 Jan 2018 20:41:54 -0000
@@ -791,10 +791,9 @@ hist_init(Source *s)
hist_source = s;
- hname = str_val(global("HISTFILE"));
- if (hname == NULL)
+ if (str_val(global("HISTFILE")) == null)
return;
- hname = str_save(hname, APERM);
+ hname = str_save(str_val(global("HISTFILE")), APERM);
histfh = history_open();
if (histfh == NULL)
return;
--
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