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| From | Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> |
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| Subject | Re: HISTFILE=/dev/null, HISTSIZE=0 removes /dev/null on exit |
| Date | Tue, 20 Oct 2015 14:42:31 -0400 |
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On 10/20/15 11:03 AM, Marko Teiste wrote: > Description: > setting HISTFILE=/dev/null and HISTSIZE=0 will replace /dev/null > with regular file on exit (when running as root). > > Repeat-By: > start bash with root priviledges > HISTFILE=/dev/null > HISTSIZE=0 > exit > > Fix: > Check if HISTFILE points to regular file before unlink/recreate? Thanks for the report. This has been fixed for the next release of bash. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
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Re: HISTFILE=/dev/null, HISTSIZE=0 removes /dev/null on exit Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2015-10-20 14:42 -0400
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