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

[Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org>]

* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail@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?

-- 
Rafael