Re: PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a; history -n' causes shell hang in OX 10.10 Yosemite / bash 3.2.53

2014-11-07 Thread Piotr Grzybowski
Good point Graham, definitely good place to start. If you are interested we can discuss further, privately. Mainly because I want to say some nasty things about implementing sharing and locking resources withouth ipc. :)) cheers, pg On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Graham Jones wrote: > Guys

Re: PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a; history -n' causes shell hang in OX 10.10 Yosemite / bash 3.2.53

2014-11-07 Thread Graham Jones
Guys thanks so much for taking this discussion further than just the reported bug that prevented the existing workaround. I’ve often considered putting this work in myself but wasn’t sure what the reason was for this not being in bash already and if there was an architectural difficulty with im

Re: PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a; history -n' causes shell hang in OX 10.10 Yosemite / bash 3.2.53

2014-11-07 Thread Piotr Grzybowski
On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > > Named pipes (aka fifos) are notorious for being buggy on Cygwin and > non-available on mingw. thanks Eric. good news. so this means, that shared history can only be implemented using regular files. is that right? cheers, pg

Re: PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a; history -n' causes shell hang in OX 10.10 Yosemite / bash 3.2.53

2014-11-07 Thread Eric Blake
On 11/07/2014 12:23 PM, Piotr Grzybowski wrote: > On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: >> >> There is no "standard ipc" except pipes across the range of systems bash >> runs on. > > thanks. good to know, before I open the flood gate of git commits ;-) > can I assume that this inclu

Re: PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a; history -n' causes shell hang in OX 10.10 Yosemite / bash 3.2.53

2014-11-07 Thread Piotr Grzybowski
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: > > There is no "standard ipc" except pipes across the range of systems bash > runs on. thanks. good to know, before I open the flood gate of git commits ;-) can I assume that this includes named pipes? cheers, pg

Re: PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a; history -n' causes shell hang in OX 10.10 Yosemite / bash 3.2.53

2014-11-06 Thread Chet Ramey
On 11/6/14, 5:19 AM, Piotr Grzybowski wrote: > On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 3:28 AM, Chet Ramey wrote: >> >> In theory, one could change the functions in history.c and histfile.c to >> change the in-memory history list to one that uses a file, possibly with >> mmap(). >> I'd be happy to look at contribu

Re: PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a; history -n' causes shell hang in OX 10.10 Yosemite / bash 3.2.53

2014-11-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 11:19:55AM +0100, Piotr Grzybowski wrote: > would you accept a solution like this: > > 1. all running instances of bash with history support on, share > history via shmem segment (some care as to its size should be taken) > ... As long as it is off by default. This is th

Re: PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a; history -n' causes shell hang in OX 10.10 Yosemite / bash 3.2.53

2014-11-06 Thread Piotr Grzybowski
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 3:28 AM, Chet Ramey wrote: > > In theory, one could change the functions in history.c and histfile.c to > change the in-memory history list to one that uses a file, possibly with > mmap(). > I'd be happy to look at contributed code to do this [..] would you accept a soluti

Re: PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a; history -n' causes shell hang in OX 10.10 Yosemite / bash 3.2.53

2014-11-05 Thread Piotr Grzybowski
On Nov 6, 2014 3:25 AM, "Chet Ramey" wrote: > > On 11/4/14 5:16 PM, Piotr Grzybowski wrote: > > Chet: for reasons unexplained calls to read_history_range at [..] > > There is an issue with this particular, relatively infrequent, set of > circumstances [..] > Thanks a lot Chet, seems that this wa

Re: PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a; history -n' causes shell hang in OX 10.10 Yosemite / bash 3.2.53

2014-11-05 Thread Graham Jones
Thanks Chet. Couple of notes: 1) I’m not setting HISTFILESIZE, only HISTSIZE. HISTFILESIZE is getting set for me based on my choice of HISTSIZE (though I assume this is something that bash does that you know about). 2) As mentioned in the initial bug report, if I set PROMPT_COMMAND='history -

Re: PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a; history -n' causes shell hang in OX 10.10 Yosemite / bash 3.2.53

2014-11-05 Thread Chet Ramey
On 11/5/14 8:39 PM, Graham Jones wrote: > Just out of curiosity, this mechanism is obviously something of a work > around to give bash a single shared history in the same style as ksh had. > Has there ever been any thought of providing a mechanism to support a > single history session in a more na

Re: PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a; history -n' causes shell hang in OX 10.10 Yosemite / bash 3.2.53

2014-11-05 Thread Chet Ramey
On 11/4/14 5:16 PM, Piotr Grzybowski wrote: > 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): There is an iss

Re: PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a; history -n' causes shell hang in OX 10.10 Yosemite / bash 3.2.53

2014-11-05 Thread Graham Jones
Just out of curiosity, this mechanism is obviously something of a work around to give bash a single shared history in the same style as ksh had. Has there ever been any thought of providing a mechanism to support a single history session in a more native way? I know that zsh has the setopt shar

Re: PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a; history -n' causes shell hang in OX 10.10 Yosemite / bash 3.2.53

2014-11-05 Thread Graham Jones
> On 6 Nov 2014, at 9:11 am, Piotr Grzybowski wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: >> I still can't reproduce it on OS X 10.10: [..] > > not only I cannot reproduce it at the moment, but also I have reached > the following state (user: root): > > # cat .bash_history >

Re: PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a; history -n' causes shell hang in OX 10.10 Yosemite / bash 3.2.53

2014-11-05 Thread Piotr Grzybowski
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: > I still can't reproduce it on OS X 10.10: [..] not only I cannot reproduce it at the moment, but also I have reached the following state (user: root): # cat .bash_history ls -al #1415144153 ls -al .bash_history #1415144154 pwd #1415144159 rm .

Re: PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a; history -n' causes shell hang in OX 10.10 Yosemite / bash 3.2.53

2014-11-05 Thread Chet Ramey
On 11/4/14, 5:16 PM, Piotr Grzybowski wrote: > 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

Re: PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a; history -n' causes shell hang in OX 10.10 Yosemite / bash 3.2.53

2014-11-04 Thread Piotr Grzybowski
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_histo

Re: PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a; history -n' causes shell hang in OX 10.10 Yosemite / bash 3.2.53

2014-11-04 Thread Piotr Grzybowski
On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 10:44 PM, Graham Jones wrote: > Now I was expecting a hole in the file, but when I finally get to see the > contents, I have 500,000 ls commands in there (one of my test commands from > above) just for the record, now I have $HISTSIZE i=0; while [ $i -lt 25 ]; do histor

Re: PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a; history -n' causes shell hang in OX 10.10 Yosemite / bash 3.2.53

2014-11-04 Thread Graham Jones
> On 5 Nov 2014, at 12:54 am, Chet Ramey 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 som

Re: PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a; history -n' causes shell hang in OX 10.10 Yosemite / bash 3.2.53

2014-11-04 Thread Piotr Grzybowski
Hi Graham, On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 10:19 PM, Graham Jones wrote: > Really? Very interesting. > I assume that it’s not reproducible with the version of bash that ships with > 10.6.8 however? not exactly the version shipped with 10.6.8, more like installed by hand: # which bash /opt/local/bin//ba

Re: PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a; history -n' causes shell hang in OX 10.10 Yosemite / bash 3.2.53

2014-11-04 Thread Graham Jones
> On 5 Nov 2014, at 4:49 am, Piotr Grzybowski wrote: > > Hi, > > reproducible on mac os x 10.6.8 Really? Very interesting. I assume that it’s not reproducible with the version of bash that ships with 10.6.8 however? > This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it. > There

Re: PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a; history -n' causes shell hang in OX 10.10 Yosemite / bash 3.2.53

2014-11-04 Thread Piotr Grzybowski
Hi, reproducible on mac os x 10.6.8 # uname -a Darwin 10.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 # bash --version GNU bash, version 4.3.24(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0) Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. L

Re: PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a; history -n' causes shell hang in OX 10.10 Yosemite / bash 3.2.53

2014-11-04 Thread Chet Ramey
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

Re: PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a; history -n' causes shell hang in OX 10.10 Yosemite / bash 3.2.53

2014-11-03 Thread Graham Jones
Resend with missing stats for truss after ctrl-C > On 4 Nov 2014, at 9:08 am, Graham Jones > wrote: > > These are for: > bash --version > GNU bash, version 4.3.30(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin14.0.0) > > lldb backtrace: > (lldb) process attach --pid 5955 > Process 5955 stopped > Executable mo

Re: PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a; history -n' causes shell hang in OX 10.10 Yosemite / bash 3.2.53

2014-11-03 Thread Graham Jones
These are for: bash --version GNU bash, version 4.3.30(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin14.0.0) lldb backtrace: (lldb) process attach --pid 5955 Process 5955 stopped Executable module set to "/usr/local/bin/bash". Architecture set to: x86_64h-apple-macosx. (lldb) bt * thread #1: tid = 0x169339, 0x00

Re: PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a; history -n' causes shell hang in OX 10.10 Yosemite / bash 3.2.53

2014-10-29 Thread Chet Ramey
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 a

PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a; history -n' causes shell hang in OX 10.10 Yosemite / bash 3.2.53

2014-10-29 Thread Graham Jones
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. The problem is somewhat intermitant in terms of how quickly