Aborting cat or tail -f on output file kills process writing to the file

[Daniel Lamberger]

Hi,

In bash, I'm doing:

some_process >& output &

Then, repeatedly doing:

tail -f output

And aborting the operation eventually crashes some_process.

The problem seems to be general; it happens when using other processes, e.g.
the bash script:

while ((1)); do date; sleep 0.5; done

And cat-ing the output and aborting midway several times instead of tail -f.


Thanks,
  Daniel.

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