Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-7.5.65-61cc6

[Eric Blake]

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According to Jim Meyering on 9/7/2009 11:41 AM:
> Eric Blake wrote:
>>> Solaris 10 failures:
>>>  tail-2/flush-initial (patch attached)
>> Hmm.  We should reword the NEWS entry (right now, it states that the
>> failure was rare because stdbuf was not always used; but your analysis of
>> this failure proves that it can indeed be more common).
> 
> Do you know of many uses of tail -f that write to a file?
> Most of the ones I've seen would output to a tty or similar device.

Good point.  I've reread the text, and although it mentions stdbuf, it
does not imply that stdbuf is the only way to get this behavior.  So I'm
okay with the existing wording:

>   tail -f (inotify-enabled) now flushes any initial output before blocking.
>   Before, this would print nothing and wait: stdbuf -o 4K tail -f /etc/passwd
>   Note that this bug affects tail -f only when its standard output is 
> buffered,
>   which is relatively unusual.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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