Re: `tail -f` intermittency

[Eric Blake]

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According to dae3 on 4/1/2009 2:56 PM:
> 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.

Unfortunately, that breaks threading and makes replying to you very
awkward.  The newsgroup that you are referring to is merely a gateway
around a mailing list, and you picked the wrong gateway.  If you want a
newsgroup gateway around the coreutils mailing list, you can use
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs among others.
Meanwhile, most GNU mailing lists do not require you to be a subscriber to
post - there is a human moderator in the loop which allows non-subscribers
posts through, so waiting for a confirmation mail is not necessary.

> 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).

Not from the ftp.gnu.org site, but it is possible from the version control
site.  For example, http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/log/.

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

You are allowed to be skeptical; we cannot force you to upgrade.  But you
may want to bring it up with your distro that their version is old.  You
really are missing out on a lot of bug fixes and performance improvements,
particularly in such essential software.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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