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Re: [patch] Save the history by default
> Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 22:36:45 +0200
> From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> > How about trying both, like we do with .gdbinit?
>
> .gdbinit is being only read, multiple such files can be read.
>
> History file should be (also) written to. History file should never be
> readonly.
I didn't mean to use more than a single history file. What I meant
was to look for that file in both places, and use the first one you
find.
> Formerly I had the patch below (this mail is not a submit for approval).
> Modulo some stat() vs. access() it may be what you suggest?
Looks like it, yes.
> Still I find such behavior too complicated to be convenient and
> therefore useful for this case. One will get rather surprised why
> randomly this or that time (s)he has or does not have the history
> available.
How could that happen? If the file will be found with your suggested
code, it will certainly be found with what I suggest. Or am I missing
something?