On 1/30/15 4:36 AM, crocket wrote: > It turns out that tramp on emacs 24.4 sets $HISTFILE to /dev/null and > makes bash delete /dev/null when I kill emacs. > > When /dev/null is not a character device but a regular file, a lot of > programs freeze.
This indicates a permissions or file system problem. I'm not sure that bash needs to be paying attention to particular file names, but it might be a good idea for the history library to verify that it's dealing with a regular file before going on. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/