7 Bug-Reported-by: Doug McMahon <mc2man@optonline.net>
8 Bug-Reference-ID: <1299441211.2535.11.camel@doug-XPS-M1330>
9 Bug-Reference-URL: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-03/msg00050.html
13 Bash-4.2 does not attempt to save the shell history on receipt of a
14 terminating signal that is handled synchronously. Unfortunately, the
15 `close' button on most X11 terminal emulators sends SIGHUP, which
18 This is a very small patch to save the history in the case that an
19 interactive shell receives a SIGHUP or SIGTERM while in readline and
22 The next version of bash will do this differently.
24 Patch (apply with `patch -p0'):
30 #if defined (READLINE)
31 # include "bashline.h"
32 +# include <readline/readline.h>
36 @@ -62,6 +63,7 @@ extern int parse_and_execute_level, shel
38 extern int history_lines_this_session;
40 +extern int no_line_editing;
42 extern void initialize_siglist ();
44 @@ -505,7 +507,10 @@ termsig_sighandler (sig)
47 /* XXX - will inhibit history file being written */
48 - history_lines_this_session = 0;
49 +# if defined (READLINE)
50 + if (interactive_shell == 0 || interactive == 0 || (sig != SIGHUP && sig != SIGTERM) || no_line_editing || (RL_ISSTATE (RL_STATE_READCMD) == 0))
52 + history_lines_this_session = 0;
54 terminate_immediately = 0;
55 termsig_handler (sig);
59 regexp `^#define[ ]*PATCHLEVEL', since that's what support/mkversion.sh
60 looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */
65 #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */