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Re: HISTFILE=/dev/null, HISTSIZE=0 removes /dev/null on exit

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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 14:57:40 -0400
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On 10/20/15 2:53 PM, Piotr Grzybowski wrote:
> hey,
> 
>  just out of curiosity, does this fix it (sorry I just finished when
> you wrote that it had been fixed):

Well, it does, but it's overkill on one hand and doesn't fix the underlying
problem on the other.  What you want to avoid is truncating the history
file (HISTSIZE=0) or writing to a temp file and renaming it over a
non-regular file (/dev/null).  Those changes are made in the history
library.

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 14:57 -0400

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