Re: PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a; history -n' causes shell hang in OX 10.10 Yosemite / bash 3.2.53

[Piotr Grzybowski]

Hi,

 reproducible on mac os x 10.6.8
# uname -a
Darwin xxxx 10.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun  7 16:33:36
PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
# bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.3.24(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0)
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

 Graham: could you please send the output of these commands:

# cat .bash_history | wc -l
# echo $HISTFILESIZE
# echo $HISTSIZE

 it obviously happens when you are almost at the level of
$HISTFILESIZE with `cat .bash_history | wc -l`.

cheers,
pg



On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> On 11/3/14 5:08 PM, Graham Jones wrote:
>> These are for:
>> bash --version
>> GNU bash, version 4.3.30(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin14.0.0)
>
> This trace looks pretty reasonable.  Maybe you could temporarily move your
> history file to some other name and see if you can reproduce this behavior
> starting fresh with an empty history file.
>
> Chet
>
> --
> ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
>                  ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
> Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
>