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Re: locking failed for /home/whoever/.zhistory: no such file or directory

On Jul 10,  9:22am, Cesar Romani wrote:
} Subject: locking failed for /home/whoever/.zhistory: no such file or direc
}
} I'm using zsh 4.3.12-dev-1
} Whenever I start zsh I always get the following message:
} zsh: locking failed for /home/whoever/.zhistory: no such file or 
} directory: reading anyway

This probably means that your system doesn't support zsh's preferred
form of locking, so zsh is trying to create a file in the directory
named by your $TMPPREFIX.  Does *that* directory exist?  What do you
see if you run

    print =(:)

?  Do you change TMPPREFIX at any time in your startup files?
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