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authorEric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>2001-06-26 15:07:08 +0000
committerEric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>2001-06-26 15:07:08 +0000
commitce98c19dfe7bcfb3174c0898f3c001c38c6d44c6 (patch)
treeab2ca26ce88380246cb7fe9d7f423c85643d6ec3
parent78b0e379d7c2db84eec34ccd89cf9afb67b94901 (diff)
downloadbusybox-ce98c19dfe7bcfb3174c0898f3c001c38c6d44c6.tar.gz
A patch from Erik Meusel <erik@wh58-709.st.uni-magdeburg.de>
to fix the behavior of 'tail -f -n 0 FILE'
-rw-r--r--coreutils/tail.c4
-rw-r--r--tail.c4
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/coreutils/tail.c b/coreutils/tail.c
index 4fe92ba5e..90cc2a6ef 100644
--- a/coreutils/tail.c
+++ b/coreutils/tail.c
@@ -127,6 +127,10 @@ int tail_main(int argc, char **argv)
for (i = 0; i < nfiles; i++) {
if (fds[i] == -1)
continue;
+ if (!count) {
+ lseek(fds[i], 0, SEEK_END);
+ continue;
+ }
seen = 0;
if (show_headers || (!hide_headers && nfiles > 1))
printf("%s==> %s <==\n", i == 0 ? "" : "\n", argv[optind + i]);
diff --git a/tail.c b/tail.c
index 4fe92ba5e..90cc2a6ef 100644
--- a/tail.c
+++ b/tail.c
@@ -127,6 +127,10 @@ int tail_main(int argc, char **argv)
for (i = 0; i < nfiles; i++) {
if (fds[i] == -1)
continue;
+ if (!count) {
+ lseek(fds[i], 0, SEEK_END);
+ continue;
+ }
seen = 0;
if (show_headers || (!hide_headers && nfiles > 1))
printf("%s==> %s <==\n", i == 0 ? "" : "\n", argv[optind + i]);