On 8/16/17 9:34 AM, Klaas van Schelven wrote: > > I'm on GNU bash, version 4.4.5(1) myself.
And you tested with this version? > > I'm not sure the solution mentioned above is sufficient to solve all > relevant variant problems caused by the pre-allocation of the memory. It appears to work with the current version, and should work with 4.4.5, since it was addressed in patch 1. $ ./bash --version GNU bash, version 4.4.12(2)-release (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 2016 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. $ HISTSIZE=1000000000 ./bash $ echo $HISTSIZE 1000000000 -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
