[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#514802: octave-symbolic: (un)install accesses user .octave_hist

[Rafael Laboissiere]

package octave-symbolic
reassign 514802 octave3.0
tags 514802 upstream confirmed
thanks

* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2009-02-12 10:05]:

> Am Mittwoch, den 11.02.2009, 17:55 +0100 schrieb Rafael Laboissiere:
> > * Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2009-02-11 13:34]:
> > 
> > > I don't think so. Seems to me like octave is accessing .octave_hist
> > > despite the --no-history flag. Snippet from 
> > > 	$ strace -f octave --no-history
> > > 
> > > open("/home/weber/.octave_hist", O_RDONLY) = 3
> > > open("/home/weber/.octave_hist", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0600) = 3
> > > 
> > > I seem to remember that this came up once already, but can't find it
> > > currently.
> > 
> > Is this an upstream bug?
> 
> If it's a bug, yes. It seems that --no-history only influences the
> saving of the new command at the end of an Octave session. 

I am reassigning this bug report to octave3.0 and tagging it appropriately.

-- 
Rafael