crashes with octave3.2 when $HOME/.octave_hist is not writable

[Soeren Sonnenburg]

To reproduce do e.g:

$ export HOME=/
$ echo version | octave
GNU Octave, version 3.2.3
Copyright (C) 2009 John W. Eaton and others.
This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  For details, type `warranty'.

Octave was configured for "x86_64-pc-linux-gnu".

Additional information about Octave is available at
http://www.octave.org.

Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For more information, visit http://www.octave.org/help-wanted.html

Report bugs to <address@hidden> (but first, please read
http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to write a helpful report).

For information about changes from previous versions, type `news'.

ans = 3.2.3
error: Permission denied
terminate called after throwing an instance of
'octave_execution_exception'
panic: Aborted -- stopping myself...
attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
warning: unable to open `octave-core' for writing...
Aborted

Das ging aber noch mit octave 3.0.x

$ echo version | octave3.0
GNU Octave, version 3.0.5
Copyright (C) 2008 John W. Eaton and others.
This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  For details, type `warranty'.

Octave was configured for "x86_64-pc-linux-gnu".

Additional information about Octave is available at
http://www.octave.org.

Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For more information, visit http://www.octave.org/help-wanted.html

Report bugs to <address@hidden> (but first, please read
http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to write a helpful report).

For information about changes from previous versions, type `news'.

ans = 3.0.5
error: Permission denied

Soeren
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