Chet: for reasons unexplained calls to read_history_range at history.def:219 219 result = read_history_range (filename, history_lines_in_file, -1);
return more and more records (77824 is above my HISTFILESIZE): 1: history_lines_in_file = 77824 the loop at histfile.c:269 in read_history_range is the one that hangs. code at commit ca6a2ba40c709c2b45a56e49d21d0dfc66e21974 Date: Sun Oct 5 19:12:20 2014 -0400 cheers, pg On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@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 c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ >