Bug 39838

Summary: bash truncates ~/.bash_history to 9999 lines despite of $HISTFILESIZE
Product: Sisyphus Reporter: Vladimir D. Seleznev <vseleznv>
Component: bash4Assignee: placeholder <placeholder>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: qa-sisyphus
Severity: normal    
Priority: P5 CC: glebfm, ldv, placeholder
Version: unstable   
Hardware: all   
OS: Linux   

Description Vladimir D. Seleznev 2021-03-25 16:56:54 MSK 
When $HISTFILESIZE is set in ~/.bashrc (or any other bash user initialization file), bash during the login session respects its value and truncates ~/.bash_history (I assume the default $HISTFILE) when its line number exceeds $HISTFILESIZE. But with new user login bash truncates ~/.bash_history to 9999 lines, it is very annoying when $HISTFILESIZE is greater that 9999.

HISTFILESIZE=9999 is set in /etc/profile but I think bash handles it too early that it should.