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  Re: Readline history bug Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2020-02-01 16:31 -0500

#15860 — Re: Readline history bug

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On 1/31/20 3:32 PM, A via Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell wrote:
> The readline package doesn't return the errno for some errors in write_history, append_history, and history_truncate_file.
> This caused an error in the CPython interpreter(at exit time) when the .python_history file was not writable.
> 
> In particular these calls return -1 when the internal`histfile_restore`call fails because`rename`fails. It's fine for`histfile_restore`to return the result from`rename`, but this should be checked for failure (e.g. -1) and handled appropriately by the caller in`history_do_write`and`history_truncate_file`. 

Thanks for the report. This fix will be in the next bash and readline devel
branch pushes.


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