From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 30943@debbugs.gnu.org, Chris Findeisen <cfindeisen@google.com>
Subject: bug#30943: save-hist creates massive cache file
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 15:12:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <qglgedbado.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83o9jag9wg.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 26 Mar 2018 17:59:43 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Save-hist doesn't truncate any variables except the ones it knows
> about, because it cannot be sure that truncating some list might leave
> the variable with an invalid value.
savehist doesn't truncate anything AFAICS.
It just assumes variables are trimmed by add-to-history etc in the
course of normal operation. So if you add a non-history variable to
savehist (or set history-length to t), it will eventually blow up.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-27 19:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-25 19:11 bug#30943: save-hist creates massive cache file Chris Findeisen
2018-03-26 14:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-27 2:50 ` Chris Findeisen
2018-03-27 19:44 ` Glenn Morris
2018-03-29 16:27 ` Chris Findeisen
2018-03-29 17:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-29 18:08 ` Glenn Morris
2018-03-29 18:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-30 5:25 ` Glenn Morris
2018-03-30 8:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-15 10:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-03-27 19:12 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2018-03-29 10:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-29 17:12 ` Glenn Morris
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