bash history not restored

[Earnie Boyd]

Oops.  Too hasty with my last reply.

I see this does solve the problem in that O_BINARY doesn't get reset to the
value zero by default.

Sorry I misread the code.

Earnie.
--- Mark Levedahl <mark.levedahl@trw.com> wrote:
> --- Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > This is a bug in the readline/history libraries used by bash.  I
> > haven't tracked them down as yet. ...
> 
> Simple, really. Bash opens .bash_history in binary mode ONLY with emx.
> Following patch fixes things.
> 
> Mark Levedahl
> 
> diff -ur bash-2.02.1-orig/lib/readline/histfile.c
> bash-2.02.1/lib/readline/histfile.c
> --- bash-2.02.1-orig/lib/readline/histfile.c Mon Oct 06 12:45:12 1997
> +++ bash-2.02.1/lib/readline/histfile.c Tue May 25 08:56:39 1999
> @@ -54,15 +54,15 @@
>  #  include <strings.h>
>  #endif /* !HAVE_STRING_H */
> 
> -#if defined (__EMX__)
> +#if defined (__EMX__) || defined (__CYGWIN__)
>  #  ifndef O_BINARY
>  #    define O_BINARY 0
>  #  endif
> -#else /* !__EMX__ */
> +#else /* !__EMX__ && !__CYGWIN__ */
>     /* If we're not compiling for __EMX__, we don't want this at all.
> Ever. */
>  #  undef O_BINARY
>  #  define O_BINARY 0
> -#endif /* !__EMX__ */
> +#endif /* !__EMX__ && !__CYGWIN__*/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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