Re: tail bug

[Paul Eggert]

"smc" <address@hidden> writes:

>     Using the coreutils version for tail GNU version 5.0.90, I get an 
> incorrect result in the number of
> lines requested. By example:
>
> tail -17 Test.File |  wc -l
> 19
>
>    I verified that "wc" is not the problem.

Thanks for your report.  I can't reproduce the problem with coreutils
5.2.1; perhaps you could try upgrading to it
<ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.1.tar.gz>.

If you still have the problem after that, we'll probably need to know
more about the situation, e.g., a copy of the test file, the output of
the "locale" command, your operating system version, etc.

Possibly the problem occurs only on Crays, due to some invalid
portability assumption?  However, I just now briefly scanned the new
tail.c and couldn't find anything along those lines.