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tail -f does lseek on fifos
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tigger |
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tail -f does lseek on fifos |
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Date: |
Sun, 18 Jul 2004 14:15:38 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.6i |
address@hidden rob $ echo foo|tail -f
foo
tail: standard input: file truncated
tail: standard input: cannot seek to offset 0: Illegal seek
The attached patch fixes this behaviour and allows tail to read from
fifos properly without dieing.
Cheers,
Rob
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rob holland - [ address@hidden ]
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