From 1290b28f5925312ac85c38642db7167cc9ace418 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 10:24:27 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Limit virsh history entries to 500 (Jim Paris)

---
 ChangeLog   | 5 +++++
 src/virsh.c | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 416de6f9fe..63c2b3b0ff 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Mon Feb  9 10:21:33 GMT 2009 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
+
+	* src/virsh.c: Limit readonly history to 500 to avoid unbounded
+	growth in memory usage (Jim Paris)
+
 Sat Feb  7 21:46:06 CET 2009 Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>
 
 	* src/qemu_driver.c (qemudStartVMDaemon, qemudDomainSuspend,
diff --git a/src/virsh.c b/src/virsh.c
index e6d434e34a..ad2dae06e6 100644
--- a/src/virsh.c
+++ b/src/virsh.c
@@ -6784,6 +6784,9 @@ vshReadlineInit(void)
 
     /* Tell the completer that we want a crack first. */
     rl_attempted_completion_function = vshReadlineCompletion;
+
+    /* Limit the total size of the history buffer */
+    stifle_history(500);
 }
 
 static char *