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Re: Pause when quitting under FreeBSD

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From: Mark Daniel Reidel <mark@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Pause when quitting under FreeBSD
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:37:41 +0000
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Dan Nelson wrote:

> corefile.  Since the next thing zsh does is unlink the history
> lockfile, I'd guess the problem is hist.c:hend() or savehistfile()
> somewhere.  Take a look at your ~/.zsh_history file; do you maybe have
> some really really long lines in it?  Maybe an NFS glitch caused a run
> of NULLs to get stored in there.

That seems to have been it. There were some NULLs inside every user's
history-file. After removing it, everyting works smooth again. Now I
only have to find out how those NULLs came in there, but that's not
zsh-matter ;o)
Thanks for the quick hint!

-- 
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Be free and open and breezy!  Enjoy!  Things won't get any better so
get used to it.

References:
- Pause when quitting under FreeBSD
  - From: Mark Daniel Reidel
- Re: Pause when quitting under FreeBSD
  - From: Dan Nelson

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