On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 05:12:23PM +0000, Peter Stephenson wrote: > You haven't said how to reproduce this (all I've seen is above), but > there are now lots tests in savehistfile() in hist.c for failure to > write and one of them is being overzealous. Possibly ret is being set > to -1 without errno being set by the corresponding call, but it sounds > like there's more to it than that. This should be easy enough to track > down if you can get it to happen.
With extendedhistory and sharehistory on (I haven't tried anything else), do a 'sudo -s' or 'sudo zsh', then exit the shell. As Sven notes, any history added before exiting will make it into the history file despite the error message. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
