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Re: PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a; history -n' causes shell hang in OX 10.1
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a; history -n' causes shell hang in OX 10.10 Yosemite / bash 3.2.53 |
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Wed, 29 Oct 2014 10:15:37 -0400 |
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On 10/29/14, 1:31 AM, Graham Jones wrote:
> Since upgrading to OS X 10.10 Yosemite and thus bash 3.2.53 use of the
> PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a; history -n'
> workaround to get a single ksh-style history causes the shell to become less
> and less responsive until it permanently hangs.
I wasn't able to reproduce this on 10.10, but there are a lot of variables
and potential environmental dependencies here.
What would be useful is some kind of backtrace (from lldb or gdb) or a
system call trace (from dtruss or ktrace) that shows what bash is doing.
Chet
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