Possible bug in tail(1)

[Matthias Apitz]

El día miércoles, septiembre 27, 2017 a las 03:20:17p. m. -0700, list at museum.rain.com escribió:

> I agree with Matthias that the issue arises when 'tail -r' is reading
> from a pipe.
> 
> I looked at the GitHub mirror and downloaded a few src tarballs around
> recent commits to tail.
> 
> Building tail from:
> 
> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/tree/97a2ca501c7e9f07a80339a88fbb5a46977ae428
> 
> does not manifest the bug.
> 
> However, tail built from:
> 
> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/tree/2fef72832029bcc228a527dd9c423ba34a7490e9
> 
> does.  IANAE, but it appears the bug may have crept in during:
> 
> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9067

One should file a bug PR. I have the issue on

FreeBSD c720-r314251 12.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #1 r314251M: Fri Jun 30 08:50:03 CEST 2017     guru at c720-r314251:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

which is CURRENT from Februar, 25 of this year.


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