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Re: Regression in zsh 5.7: locking failed for /dev/null: permission denied



On 29 Jan 2019, at 12:51, Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I use the following function, see suggestion from
>http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2016/msg02070.html
>...
>When I use it, I get the error:
>
>append_file_to_hist:24: locking failed for /dev/null: permission denied

I didn't look *super* hard, but i don't see anything obvious in the changes
between 5.6.2 and 5.7 that would have affected that. More importantly, i get
the same error on 5.4.2/Ubuntu and 5.6.2/Homebrew.

So i'm not sure it's actually a regression...?

dana



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