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Re: GNU coding standards clash with POSIX for "... | tail -f"


From: Bob Proulx
Subject: Re: GNU coding standards clash with POSIX for "... | tail -f"
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 02:55:15 -0600
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Paul Eggert wrote:
> (2) I don't think many people are relying on this behavior.
>     (Why would you want to run "tail -f" on a pipe?)

Agreed.  That does seem freaky.  I can't think of a useful case for it.

Bob




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