On 04/13/2010 02:16 PM, Eric Kever wrote: > I've created a file 'foo', and used tail -f to follow the changes to > that file. > 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'.
Which version of coreutils? Which platform? The latest coreutils is 8.4, and there have been some fixes for bugs in tail within the last year. We need more information before we can either repeat this or definitively state that you have encountered one of those already-fixed bugs. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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