Re: `tail -f` intermittency

[dae3]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:

> [moving to bug-coreutils, which is the address listed in tail --help]

Thank you for reposting to the appropriate place. Unfortunately, it
seems I'm unable to subscribe to the ML (I'm not receiving the
confirmation email) so I'll reply here on the gnu.utils.bug Usenet
newsgroup.

> This may be your problem.  You are using something that is three years
> old, and which has had bug fixes in the meantime.  The latest stable
> coreutils release is 7.2; you should try upgrading and seeing if that
> fixes the problem.

However, I found nothing in ChangeLog{,-200{6,7,8}} that would indicate
a bug fix in that area (BTW, it'd be nice if it could be possible to
download just the big changelog from the ftp.gnu.org site, unless I've
missed it).

I'm a bit wary of installing a different version than what my
distribution provides for such essential software.

-- 
~> cat /etc/redhat-release && uname -a
Scientific Linux SL release 5.2 (Boron)
Linux acerrimo.local 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 #1 SMP Tue Dec 16 06:50:02 EST 
2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux