Re: tail option parsing bug

[Jim Meyering]

Thanks for the report and patch!
I've applied that, even though support for the obsolescent
option syntax is slated to be withdrawn pretty soon.

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
| Hi,
|
| In textutils-2.0 to 2.0.14, "tail -Nb" gives an error message. Example:
|
| $ tail -10b < /bin/tar | wc -c
| tail: b: invalid suffix character in obsolescent option
|       0
|
| But SUSV2 says the 'b' suffix is allowed and equivalent to 'c' with a
| multiplier of 512.  Below is a fix.
|
| $ tail -10b < /bin/tar | wc -c
| 5120
|
| Bruno
|
|
| 2001-05-12  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>
|
|       * src/tail.c (parse_obsolescent_option): Accept a b suffix.