Re: tail -f problem

[Eric Blake]

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According to Jim Meyering on 9/7/2009 2:48 PM:
> This seems small and safe enough that
> I'm leaning toward including it in coreutils-7.6,
> but I'll wait for a second opinion and/or review.
> 
> +** POSIX conformance
> +
> +  tail -f now ignores "-" when stdin is a pipe or FIFO, per POSIX.
> +  Now, : | tail -f terminates immediately.  Before, it'd block indefinitely.
> +  [the old behavior dates back to the original implementation]

Let's spell out the abbreviation ("it'd" is colloquial; using "it would"
sounds better).  Beyond that, I didn't see anything wrong in the review
(either coding-wise, or compliance-wise).

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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