From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 2 20:41:26 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7009106564A for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2008 20:41:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com (yw-out-2324.google.com [74.125.46.29]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 798978FC12 for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2008 20:41:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 9so303418ywe.13 for ; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:41:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.191.10 with SMTP id o10mr2714620wff.94.1220388084446; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:41:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.76.14 with HTTP; Tue, 2 Sep 2008 13:41:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 13:41:24 -0700 From: "Peter Wemm" To: "Roman Divacky" In-Reply-To: <20080902160003.GA50767@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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> Cc: Alexey Shuvaev , Ed Schouten , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: csh history and pts X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:41:26 -0000 On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Roman Divacky 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