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Re: locking failed for /home/whoever/.zhistory: no such file or directory



On 10/07/2011 11:53 a.m., Peter Stephenson wrote:
> Cesar Romani wrote:
>> I'm using zsh 4.3.12-dev-1
>> Whenever I start zsh I always get the following message:
>> zsh: locking failed for /home/whoever/.zhistory: no such file or
>> directory: reading anyway
>
> That means a system call to lock the file for reading failed.  It
> depends on the file system whether locking is enabled.  So long as you
> are not attempting to use the history file with multiple terminals at
> once, you shouldn't hit problems.

But my .zhistory is always empty. Isn't there a workaround for it?
With zsh 4.3.10 I didn't have that problem.

Best regards,

--
Cesar



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