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Re: histroy file being truncated (konsole with multiple shells context)

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: histroy file being truncated (konsole with multiple shells context)
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 18:22:46 +0100
In-reply-to: "Samuel Krempp"'s message of "Sun, 04 Jul 2004 12:40:10 +0200." <1088937610.4949.41.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Samuel Krempp wrote:
> Shouldn't zsh be cautious about that, and use some safe commit idiom ?

It uses a lockfile, in fact, so in principle it ought to be safe.
(Whether it's bug free in practice is another matter, of course.)  It
would be less safe if you were accessing files remotely via NFS or
[makes sign of evil eye] Samba.

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- histroy file being truncated (konsole with multiple shells context)
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