[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#5941: marked as done (tail bug)

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has caused the GNU bug report #5941,
regarding tail bug
to be marked as done.

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> tail bug
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> Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:16:46 -0400
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> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US;	rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4
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> I've created a file 'foo', and used tail -f to follow the changes to 
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> I then wrote 'test' to the file and saved it, and tail reported 'test', 
> which is fine.
> I then deleted 'test' and saved the file, and tail reported 'tail: foo: 
> file truncated', which is fine.
> I then wrote 'test' again and saved the file, and tail reported 'est' 
> instead of 'test'.
> It seems that any time the file that tail is following is truncated, 
> tail will miss the first byte of any information that is written to the 
> file after the truncation.
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> You've read my email.  Windows must restart for the changes to take effect.
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> Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:10:59 +0100
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