From: crocket <crockabiscuit@gmail.com>
To: 19731@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19731: 24.4; /dev/null is deleted by tramp-sh.el
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 18:41:09 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL0=0H214kzjwLiDuS4i5ju0Ny5nWivMwkAG3HcP5iQzsHParw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL0=0H2eCoy1-O2K=Z+ixu3BMRBqSwWdnbxHtRRShzOKa40V4g@mail.gmail.com>
I think there are at least two solutions to tramp-sh.el problem.
1) Change the shell to zsh
2) unset $HISTFILE and set HISTFILESIZE to 0 instead of setting
HISTFILE to /dev/null
3) etc...
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 2:18 PM, crocket <crockabiscuit@gmail.com> wrote:
> According to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1397412#p1397412
> , if HISTFILE=/dev/null is set as an environment variable, /dev/null
> can be deleted and replaced by a regular file with permission 600.
>
> If I fiddled with magit over tramp sudo method for a while and exited
> emacs, I see /dev/null replaced with a regular file with permission
> 600.
>
> After some inspections, I found HISTFILE=/dev/null in tramp-sh.el.
>
> Could tramp-sh.el be the cause of /dev/null problem?
>
> In GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.14.7)
> of 2015-01-18 on bisson
> Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11603000
> Configured using:
> `configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/lib
> --localstatedir=/var --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-xft
> 'CFLAGS=-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector-strong
> --param=ssp-buffer-size=4' CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
> LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro'
>
> Important settings:
> value of $LANG: en_US.utf8
> value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus
> locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
>
> Major mode: Fundamental
>
> Minor modes in effect:
> tooltip-mode: t
> electric-indent-mode: t
> mouse-wheel-mode: t
> tool-bar-mode: t
> menu-bar-mode: t
> file-name-shadow-mode: t
> global-font-lock-mode: t
> blink-cursor-mode: t
> auto-composition-mode: t
> auto-encryption-mode: t
> auto-compression-mode: t
> buffer-read-only: t
> line-number-mode: t
> transient-mark-mode: t
>
> Recent input:
> <help-echo> C-x C-f <backspace> C-g M-x r e p o r t
> <tab> <return>
>
> Recent messages:
> For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
> Quit
>
> Load-path shadows:
> None found.
>
> Features:
> (shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message idna format-spec
> rfc822 mml mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231
> mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums
> mm-util help-fns mail-prsvr mail-utils info easymenu package epg-config
> time-date tooltip electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type
> mwheel x-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe
> tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar
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> backquote make-network-process dbusbind gfilenotify dynamic-setting
> system-font-setting font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x
> multi-tty emacs)
>
> Memory information:
> ((conses 16 113852 6530)
> (symbols 48 20679 0)
> (miscs 40 87 124)
> (strings 32 22379 4312)
> (string-bytes 1 542144)
> (vectors 16 12069)
> (vector-slots 8 418986 5747)
> (floats 8 66 65)
> (intervals 56 224 19)
> (buffers 960 12)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-30 9:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-30 5:18 bug#19731: 24.4; /dev/null is deleted by tramp-sh.el crocket
2015-01-30 9:38 ` crocket
2015-01-30 9:41 ` crocket [this message]
2015-02-02 11:44 ` Michael Albinus
[not found] ` <CAL0=0H0i02hc96VRz4HFnS9ztr2-1SxaykZiJ6mqPQxm5h2aag@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <87mw4wjyqi.fsf@gmx.de>
2015-02-02 12:22 ` crocket
2015-02-02 12:45 ` Michael Albinus
2015-02-02 12:46 ` crocket
2015-02-02 13:04 ` Michael Albinus
2015-02-02 14:18 ` crocket
2015-02-02 15:25 ` Michael Albinus
2015-02-02 18:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-02 19:50 ` Michael Albinus
2015-02-02 20:08 ` Glenn Morris
2015-02-03 3:06 ` crocket
2015-02-03 8:34 ` Michael Albinus
2015-02-03 9:10 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-02-03 9:23 ` Michael Albinus
2015-02-03 16:54 ` Glenn Morris
2015-02-06 11:01 ` Alad Wenter
2015-02-08 10:05 ` Michael Albinus
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