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

[John W. Eaton]

On 13-Feb-2009, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

| * John W. Eaton <jwe at octave.org> [2009-02-13 13:06]:
| 
| > The option --no-history is supposed to mean no history at all.  What I
| > see is that the history file is not read, and commands are not saved
| > to the history list, but then the history (an empty list) is still
| > saved to the history file when Octave exits, wiping out whatever was
| > there before.
| 
| I see that this bug affects the 3.1 branch.  It seems that it is not the
| case for the 3.0 branch.  Could you please confirm?

What I see with 3.0.3 is that it reads and writes the history file
even with --no-history.  So that is still wrong, but doesn't have the
bad effect of truncating the history file as happens with the 3.1.x
sources prior to the patch I checked in earlier today.

jwe