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bug#24903: "tail -f - foo" does not terminate when stdin is closed and f


From: Bernhard Voelker
Subject: bug#24903: "tail -f - foo" does not terminate when stdin is closed and foo is ignored
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 22:28:39 +0100
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On 11/08/2016 06:47 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Subject: [PATCH] tail: terminate when following pipes and untailable non pipes
> 
> * src/tail.c (ignore_pipe_or_fifo): Mark the descriptor as -1
> for pipes so that any_live_files() detects correctly that
> the entry is no longer live.
> * tests/tail-2/pipe-f.sh: Add a test case.
> Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/24903 which was detected
> using Symbolic Execution techniques developed in
> the course of the SYMBIOSYS research project at
> COMSYS, RWTH Aachen University.

The patch looks good, yet I think it warrants a NEWS entry.

Thanks & have a nice day,
Berny





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