Re: coreutils-7.1 tomorrow, unless...

[Jos Backus]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 09:18:37PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Jos Backus <address@hidden> writes:
> > Any update on the fix for `tail -F'?
> 
> Nothing concrete, sorry.
 
No problem, and no need to apologize.

> I did spend some time trying to fix it, but kept finding ways
> to make the result misbehave, usually involving hard-to-reproduce
> race conditions.

Well, this is why _I_ would just apply my one-line fix, because the behavior
today is even more broken (it provably loses data in a very common scenario)
and the patch introduces very little risk, if any. Call me pragmatic.

Obviously you disagree so there's no need to go over the arguments again.

Thanks for the update, Jim.

Cheers,
-- 
Jos Backus
jos at catnook.com