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Re: 4.3.4-dev-4 and 4.2.6-dev-2 available

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
To: Zsh users list <zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: 4.3.4-dev-4 and 4.2.6-dev-2 available
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:48:50 +0000
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Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Shared history still corrupts under NFS with 4.3.4-dev-4. :(
> Happens all the time when mixing 32-bit and 64-bit Linux clients.
> Will this be fixed?

Wayne might be able to tell you about this.

> FYI, I tried to patch zsh to use fcntl locking in the past, but
> the zsh history code is so complex and unintuitive that I couldn't.

The strategy was deliberately to avoid file locking known to be buggy in
older NFS implementations.

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