Re: tail -f problem

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake wrote:

> According to Jim Meyering on 9/7/2009 2:48 PM:
>> This seems small and safe enough that
>> I'm leaning toward including it in coreutils-7.6,
>> but I'll wait for a second opinion and/or review.
>>
>> +** POSIX conformance
>> +
>> +  tail -f now ignores "-" when stdin is a pipe or FIFO, per POSIX.
>> +  Now, : | tail -f terminates immediately.  Before, it'd block indefinitely.
>> +  [the old behavior dates back to the original implementation]
>
> Let's spell out the abbreviation ("it'd" is colloquial; using "it would"
> sounds better).  Beyond that, I didn't see anything wrong in the review
> (either coding-wise, or compliance-wise).

Thanks for the review.
I prefer "it would", too and wrote that, at first, but that
made it a little too long ;-)

Adjusted:

** POSIX conformance

  tail -f now ignores "-" when stdin is a pipe or FIFO, per POSIX.
  Now, :|tail -f terminates immediately.  Before, it would block indefinitely.
  [the old behavior dates back to the original implementation]