[Tcsh] Discard ~/.history when it grows over reasonable size

[Christos Zoulas]

On Aug 24,  2:19pm, dkaspar at redhat.com ("David Kaspar [Dee'Kej]") wrote:
-- Subject: [Tcsh] Discard ~/.history when it grows over reasonable size


I think you want to catch it earlier (while appending characters):

diff --git a/sh.lex.c b/sh.lex.c
index fee790a..091410e 100644
--- a/sh.lex.c
+++ b/sh.lex.c
@@ -1522,6 +1522,8 @@ reread:
            onelflg--;
     } while (c == 0);
     Strbuf_append1(&histline, c);
+    if (histline.len >= INBUFSIZE)
+       return CHAR_ERR;
     return (c);
 }


christos