On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 06:57:34 -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:59:29AM +0200, LEVAI Daniel wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 13:55:57 -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:11:46AM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote:
> > > > I have had enough of corrupt ksh history so I had a look at the code to
> > > > try to fix it.  The magical code was very magical so I basically deleted
> > > > most of it and made ksh history into a flat text file.  It handles
> > > > multiple ksh instances writing to the same text file with locks just
> > > > like the current ksh does.  I haven't noticed any differences in
> > > > behavior running this.
> > 
> > If one had set HISTFILE='', the old behaviour was to not write a history
> > file, but the "in memory" history was still working.
> > With this patch, if I set HISTFILE='' then there will be no command
> > history at all.
> 
> This is the same with current ksh.

Not for me. Currently if I set HISTFILE to '' then in-memory history
works but it doesn't write to history file (which was my intention when
I've set HISTFILE='').


Daniel

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