bug#31225: undocumented change in tail in 8.28 (pipe output monitoring)

2018-04-20 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 20/04/18 07:56, Dr. Thomas Orgis wrote: > Hi all, > > during debugging of a background process issue where I have tail -f > feeding into a pipe, I was surprised by a change in tail introduced in > release 8.28 of GNU coreutils: The monitoring of the output pipe and > silent exit of tail e.g. in

bug#31225: undocumented change in tail in 8.28 (pipe output monitoring)

2018-04-20 Thread Dr. Thomas Orgis
Hi all, during debugging of a background process issue where I have tail -f feeding into a pipe, I was surprised by a change in tail introduced in release 8.28 of GNU coreutils: The monitoring of the output pipe and silent exit of tail e.g. in the case of tail -f /dev/null | true . This