On 2008 Aug 31, at 7:47, Devin Mullins wrote:
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 12:09:31AM -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
Would an acceptable alternative be to pass the config directory as a cmdline arg? What exactly is the problem with following a documented standard? My reasons are Spencer's reasons, plus it's not really a standard standard. You didn't answer the question.
I answered the question with another question: if the history file isn't properly locked, it must be non-shared which means at minimum a separate one per host. And if we're picking and choosing which standards we consider to be "true" standards, we risk getting locked out of distributions that disagree with us. (I would not be greatly surprised if Debian were to decide to demand it where it is relevant.) -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH