HISTFILE in zsh

[Peter A. Castro]

On Sat, 23 Dec 2006, Eli Barzilay wrote:

Greetings, Eli,
   (Sorry for the long delay, vacation, etc etc.)

> I'm having the same problem that is described at
>
>  http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-12/msg00195.html
>
> I'm surprised that it was reported in 2004 -- I use cygwin on several
> machines with no problems, it's only a new one that is having the
> above symptom.
>
> (Which is related to saving/loading the history file -- `fc -R foo'
> and `fc -W foo' also hang.  Using strace, it looks like the problem is
> some kind of an infinite loop that is related to a lock file for the
> history file.)

I've seen this reported before, but I still can't seem to reproduce it.
Can you collect the system info as per http://www.cygwin.com/problems.html

In your debugging, what routine were you seeing the loop?  Was it zsh
code or cygwin code?  Was it a system call returning a bad value?  I'd
like to track this down finally.

Lastly, have you tried the latest cygwin snapshot?

Thanks!

-- 
Peter A. Castro <doctor@fruitbat.org> or <Peter.Castro@oracle.com>
 	"Cats are just autistic Dogs" -- Dr. Tony Attwood

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