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
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