[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #49214] ".octave_hist" not updated if it is a "hidden" Windows file

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #14, bug #49214 (project octave):

If I use File Explorer to change .octave_hist to hidden, and then start
octave-cli.exe from a cmd.exe window I get the following error on leaving
Octave.


error: writing file 'C:\Documents and Settings\Rik\My
Documents\Linux\home\rik\.octave_hist': Permission denied
error: ignoring const octave::execution_exception& while preparing to exit


I used the function history_file() to change the name of the file to something
without a leading '.' character, but I get the same error message if the new
file has the hidden attribute.

On the other hand, directly writing the history file with


history -w


works just fine in an Octave session.  So it may be something special about
the shutdown procedure for Octave.



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