csh history and pts

Roman Divacky rdivacky at freebsd.org
Tue Sep 2 16:00:18 UTC 2008


On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 04:30:20PM +0100, Thomas Hurst wrote:
> * Roman Divacky (rdivacky at 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


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