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 -- ``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/