On 4/3/19 4:03 PM, JohnD wrote:
>
> Version: 8.0-release
> Windows 10, mingw64-w64.
>
> I'm attempting to use readline in a mingw compiled project and am seeing
> that the history save is failing. If the history file doesn't exist it is
> working, on having a history file, it fails.
>
> Previously I was using v6.2 without any issues
>
> Printing the status out in the sources to find out where it fails, it is
> failing in histfile_restore when calling the rename function, which looks to
> have been added for version 7.0
>
>
> According to http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstdio/rename/ if the dest
> file already exists, the function may either fail or override the existing
> file, depending on the specific system and library implementation.
Well, those are terrible semantics. So much for atomic rename and leaving
newpath in place on a file system error.
I don't use Windows, but you could try adding
unlink(linkbuf);
or
unlink(orig);
before the calls to rename() (or, if you're using a version of readline
distributed by MinGW, file a bug report with them). Let me know if it
works.
Chet
--
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU [email protected] http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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