[Buildroot] Shell history w/ ASH spans multiple ash instances

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at uclibc.org
Thu Feb 19 15:14:56 UTC 2009


>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Malkowski <eric at bvwireless.net> writes:

Hi,

 Eric> To follow up briefly: In looking at the source in libbb it appears
 Eric> disabling CONFIG_FEATURE_EDITING_SAVEHISTORY will stop libbb from
 Eric> writing to ~/.ash_history
 Eric> Older versions I've used had SAVEHISTORY enabled but didn't
 Eric> dynamically load it from various instances of interactive shells
 Eric> causing thr cross-shell history sharing -- perhaps this is a new
 Eric> "feature".  I don't need the history saved and loaded constantly or on
 Eric> shell exit so I'll try turning that off.

Ok.

 Eric> Sorry for using the wrong list -- but at least you can see my
 Eric> reasoning for starting w/ the buildroot list.

No problem, it's just that (even though there's a certain overlap
between buildroot and busybox people) the busybox people normally know
the finer details of their program better than we do.

 Eric> If anything further is needed w/ this topic, I'll move over to the
 Eric> busybox list.

Thanks.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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