On 23/10/2025 10:19, Peter Tribble wrote:
On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM Bill Sommerfeld via illumos-discuss <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:On 10/22/25 07:28, Peter Tribble wrote: > tail really shouldn't need to keep the file descriptor > open for every file Try "tail -f" with multiple file arguments; it tracks all the files (and thus has reason to keep all of them open).But, as Udo said originally, without -f it doesn't need to keep them open at all.
The source code even has to distinct sections to open with and without -f, and it would probably be trivial to add a close for the non-f case in the loop after.
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