Eric Kever <tenshi.sai...@gmail.com> writes: > 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'.
That's not a bug. When you truncated the file you actually wrote a single newline, so the current position became one character into the file. The fact that the next modification overwrote the newline (with `t') wasn't noticed by tail, because it only watches for modifications after the current end-of-file. Try using an editor that actually allows you to write an empty file (or use `> foo' in the shell). Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
