lineedit: reduce default history size

Keep the maximum history size at 1023 but make the default 383.
This gives a modest increase over the previous default of 255
while allowing users to increase or decrease the history size
using the HISTFILESIZE environment variable.

(GitHub issue #411)

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/libbb/lineedit.c b/libbb/lineedit.c
index ee494e013..1a095b657 100644
--- a/libbb/lineedit.c
+++ b/libbb/lineedit.c
@@ -1585,7 +1585,11 @@ line_input_t* FAST_FUNC new_line_input_t(int flags)
 
 unsigned FAST_FUNC size_from_HISTFILESIZE(const char *hp)
 {
+# if ENABLE_PLATFORM_MINGW32 && MAX_HISTORY > 511
+        int size = 384;
+# else
         int size = MAX_HISTORY;
+# endif
         if (hp) {
                 size = atoi(hp);
                 if (size <= 0)