[debbugs-tracker] bug#29809: closed (a bug with the "tail" command)

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has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #29809,
regarding a bug with the "tail" command
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> a bug with the "tail" command
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> Thu, 21 Dec 2017 23:49:04 -0500
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> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0
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> I had a program writing to a file, 'list'.  And then I issued the 
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> tail: unrecognized file system type 0x53464846 for 'list'. please report 
> this to address@hidden reverting to polling
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> The above message came out.
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> gcc --version displayed
> gcc (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.3) 4.8.4
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> I'm using a bash shell in Windows 10.
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> "apt list" displayed
> coreutils/trusty-updates,now 8.21-1ubuntu5.4 amd64 [installed]
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> Hope this is of some value to you.
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> Jan Rogoyski
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> Re: bug#29809: a bug with the "tail" command
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> Thu, 21 Dec 2017 22:49:43 -0700
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> Hello,
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> On 2017-12-21 09:49 PM, Jan Rogoyski wrote:
> > tail: unrecognized file system type 0x53464846 for 'list'. please report 
> > this to address@hidden reverting to polling
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> Thank you for the report.
> This file system (wslfs - windows subsystem for linux) has been added to 
> coreutils 8.26 (you are using older version 8.21 which doesn't recognize 
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> For more information please see here:
>  https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/filesystems.html
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> regards,
>  - assaf
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