The error message generated by perror() is not particularly useful to the user. Many other command line programs that can keep history around cope silently if they can't create or write to their history file. --- fish/fish.c | 4 +--- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fish/fish.c b/fish/fish.c index b782b7c..bf976ea 100644 --- a/fish/fish.c +++ b/fish/fish.c @@ -1433,10 +1433,8 @@ cleanup_readline (void) if (histfile[0] != '\0') { fd = open (histfile, O_WRONLY|O_CREAT, 0644); - if (fd == -1) { - perror (histfile); + if (fd == -1) return; - } close (fd); #ifdef HAVE_APPEND_HISTORY