[debbugs-tracker] bug#17145: closed (head fails with implicit stdin on darwin)

[GNU bug Tracking System]

Your message dated Wed, 02 Apr 2014 07:47:11 -0700
with message-id <address@hidden>
and subject line Re: bug#17145: head fails with implicit stdin on darwin
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #17145,
regarding head fails with implicit stdin on darwin
to be marked as done.

(If you believe you have received this mail in error, please contact
address@hidden)


-- 
17145: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=17145
GNU Bug Tracking System
Contact address@hidden with problems
> --- Begin Message ---
>
>
>
> Subject: 
>
> head fails with implicit stdin on darwin
>
>
>
>
> Date: 
>
> Sun, 30 Mar 2014 22:40:18 +0200
>
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> head -n -1 -- -
> or equivalently
> head -n -1
> returns immediately (ie does not wait for further stdin) and prints nothing.
>
> I use coreutils 8.22 compiled (with gcc-4.8.2) on top of darwin 13.1.0 
> (Mavericks).
>
> However the following seem to work perfectly:
> head -n 1
> head -c -1
> cat | head -n -1
> head -n -1 ---presume-input-pipe
> on cygwin: head -n -1
>
> What is weird on my system is lseek() at the beginning of 
> elide_tail_lines_file():
> lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_CUR) returns a (random?) number, something like 6735, 539 etc.
> lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_END) returns 0
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Regards,
>
> Denis Excoffier.
>
>
> --- End Message ---
> --- Begin Message ---
>
>
>
> Subject: 
>
> Re: bug#17145: head fails with implicit stdin on darwin
>
>
>
>
> Date: 
>
> Wed, 02 Apr 2014 07:47:11 -0700
>
>
>
>
> User-agent: 
>
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0
>
>
>
>
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > s/if/else if/
>
> Thanks.  Or better yet, return false if fstat fails.  I did that, plus 
> the other changes you and Bernhard suggested, and installed the patch.
>
>
> --- End Message ---