Re: Root history not saving over reboot 8*

> barbara wrote:
> > I didn't tried pressing ctrl-d, but I can confirm that the history get lost even using shutdown as I use reboot only sometime in single user.
> >
> > BTW, isn't ctrl-d the combination for command completion?
> >   
> I think I mentioned ctrl-d explicitly just because it is *essential* to 
> press it.
> Ctrl-D performs a clean exit, given that the command line is empty.
> 
> If one issues "shutdown -r now", the shell is not terminated, as the 
> shutdown command starts the shutdown process in the background - because 
> "now" is not the only option and it basically schedules the shutdown to 
> happen in 0 minutes.
> After issuing "shutdown -r now" the user is returned to the shell, which 
> remains active until it is killed during the shutdown process.
> Hitting Ctrl-D immediately after issuing that command ensures that you 
> have "exit"-ed the shell; if that was done before the shutdown kill 
> sequence, and before the filesystems are remounted read-only - that's 
> exactly why I said "immediately" - the shell *will* save the history file.
> 
> Using "reboot" or hitting Ctrl-Alt-Del on the console terminates all 
> virtual consoles; if a console is terminated, the shell that was running 
> on it exits on "Lost terminal" signal.
> 
> I do indeed hope that this time my explanation is detailed enough.
> 

Ok, I've got it.
Your explaination is even too much detailed!
But, without considering reboot or ctrl-alt-del, this is not what many users expect also comparing the behavior of the previous releases. 
At least I never had such problem before 8.
And you can see many request about that in various mailing list and there is also one in the forum. I've also found a couple of bloggers reporting that.

Thanks