Re: tail -f problem

[Pádraig Brady]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> Ulrich Drepper wrote:
>> Jim Meyering wrote:
>>> Thanks for the report!
> 
> Ulrich and Ren reported that the command,
> 
>   echo foobar | tail -c3 -f
> 
> would block indefinitely, while POSIX says that it must not.

This seems to be handled already (see line 1926):

echo foobar | POSIXLY_CORRECT="" tail -c3 -f

Also there is the stdin_cmdline_arg bit below this new chunk.
Is that now rendered redundant?

It seems that these 3 chunks should be merged.

cheers,
Pádraig.