Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: something funny about tty's on 2.6.4-rc1-mm1 | From | "James H. Cloos Jr." <> | Date | Tue, 02 Mar 2004 12:47:40 -0500 |
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>>>>> "Richard" == Richard B Johnson <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
Richard> I think /dev/tty, used in the context of any process, always Richard> refers to the current processes terminal. You should not have Richard> to "hard-code" a particular terminal.
No, I obviously was ambiguous. I use:
export HISTFILE=~/.bash_history_${USER}_$(tty|sed s_^/dev/__|tr / _)
in my ~/.bashrc to ensure that each term has a unique and repeatable HISTFILE. I do not see any alternative tuple that is unique and repeatable.
This change makes that idiom useless, with no alternative available.
On a multi-user server the change is clearly the right thing to do, but on a workstation, laptop or handheld, where few ptys are typically allocated, the case isn't so clear.
-JimC
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