On 8/25/06, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "Martin Atukunda" <matlads@gmail.com> writes:
> > On 8/25/06, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >> There's probably no way to get Apple's libedit to not try the fchmod,
> >> so what do we want to do here? Maybe special-case the string
> >> "/dev/null"?
>
> > If this is OK, I can up with a patch that special cases /dev/null as a
> > HISTFILE if libedit is found.
>
> I was thinking of basically a one-liner addition to write_history
> to skip the whole thing if strcmp(fname, DEVNULL) == 0. Should be
> reasonably inoffensive on anyone's machine.
I guess you meant saveHistory instead of write_history here. :)
something like the attached diff
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