Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 13:41:24 -0700 From: "Peter Wemm" <peter@wemm.org> To: "Roman Divacky" <rdivacky@freebsd.org> Cc: Alexey Shuvaev <shuvaev@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de>, Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: csh history and pts Message-ID: <e7db6d980809021341t58b19290y64aaf34a0879cbaa@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080902160003.GA50767@freebsd.org> References: <48BAD085.1090507@gmail.com> <20080831200950.GF99951@hoeg.nl> <871w04syfw.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20080901101121.GC4083@wep400x.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> <20080901160844.GA56657@freebsd.org> <20080902153020.GA94977@voi.aagh.net> <20080902160003.GA50767@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 04:30:20PM +0100, Thomas Hurst wrote: >> * Roman Divacky (rdivacky@freebsd.org) wrote: >> >> > > Back to original post, I confirm that [t]csh loses history after shutdown(8). >> > >> > might be completely irrelevant but tcsh on linux loses history for me as well :) >> >> tcsh doesn't bother doing any locking when merging .history, so if you >> kill multiple sessions at once, it's very common to see entries get >> lost, interlaced or doubled e.g: > > that's not it.... I never had any history saved since I started to use Linux (10 months > ago).. > > I occasionlly get garbled/lost history under fbsd but this is different FreeBSD's tcsh history saving has always been spotty on the console at reboot time. Over the last 15 years, sometimes it worked, sometimes not. I think it depended more on the phase of moon than anything. -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 "If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution." -- Robert Sewell
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