On 5/8/17 4:29 PM, tob...@ryara.net wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.2
> Patch Level: 53
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> Bash 4.3 introduced "-1" for unlimited history.
>
> Starting bash 4.2 with HISTSIZE=-1 in ~/.bashrc causes a segmentation
> fault (assuming you have a ~/.bash_history with at least one entry).
> This can easily happen if several systems (with different bash
> versions) mount the same home directory.
Thanks for the report. Bash-4.2 was released in 2011, is two versions old,
and is no longer supported.
If you want a workaround that should work in bash-4.2 and bash-4.3, try
using some large number (people have used 9999) for HISTSIZE, giving you
effectively unlimited history.
Chet
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
