On 8/25/06, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Martin Atukunda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 8/25/06, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> There's probably no way to get Apple's libedit to not try the fchmod, >> so what do we want to do here? Maybe special-case the string >> "/dev/null"?> If this is OK, I can up with a patch that special cases /dev/null as a > HISTFILE if libedit is found. I was thinking of basically a one-liner addition to write_history to skip the whole thing if strcmp(fname, DEVNULL) == 0. Should be reasonably inoffensive on anyone's machine.
I guess you meant saveHistory instead of write_history here. :) something like the attached diff - Martin -
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