Re: Bug in history changes

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Peter Stephenson wrote:
> It seems to be the code with HISTEXPIREDUPSFIRST in
> putoldhistentryontop() setting the next pointer to something that's
> about to be free, but I don't remotely understand the code well enough
> to be sure.  I made it go away by setting next to NULL if it was
> pointing to something that was being freed, but I have no idea if this
> is correct, or if that should ever happen.

Actually, I can't really see how the following fix can be far wrong.  It
fixes the crash.  It doesn't fix the other, very minor, problem.

Index: Src/hist.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Src/hist.c,v
retrieving revision 1.42
diff -u -r1.42 hist.c
--- Src/hist.c	20 Feb 2002 19:25:14 -0000	1.42
+++ Src/hist.c	22 Feb 2002 11:24:54 -0000
@@ -941,6 +941,8 @@
 	hist_ring->down = he->down->up = he;
     }
     hist_ring = he;
+    if (next == hist_ring)
+	next = hist_ring->down;
 }
 
 /**/

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Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
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Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 392070


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