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Re: Bug#369305: zsh: failed to write history file /home/sven/.zsh-history: no such file or directory

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From: Clint Adams <clint@xxxxxxx>
To: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Bug#369305: zsh: failed to write history file /home/sven/.zsh-history: no such file or directory
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 15:29:36 -0500
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@xxxxxx>, 369305@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 05:12:23PM +0000, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> You haven't said how to reproduce this (all I've seen is above), but
> there are now lots tests in savehistfile() in hist.c for failure to
> write and one of them is being overzealous.  Possibly ret is being set
> to -1 without errno being set by the corresponding call, but it sounds
> like there's more to it than that.  This should be easy enough to track
> down if you can get it to happen.

With extendedhistory and sharehistory on (I haven't tried anything
else), do a 'sudo -s' or 'sudo zsh', then exit the shell.

As Sven notes, any history added before exiting will make it into the
history file despite the error message.

Follow-Ups:
- Re: Bug#369305: zsh: failed to write history file /home/sven/.zsh-history: no such file or directory
  - From: Wayne Davison

References:
- Re: Bug#369305: zsh: failed to write history file /home/sven/.zsh-history: no such file or directory
  - From: Clint Adams
- Re: Bug#369305: zsh: failed to write history file /home/sven/.zsh-history: no such file or directory
  - From: Peter Stephenson

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