First noticed while running (and interrupting) dpb whilst tailing logs.
Sequence of events, it may be relevant that $dir is on NFS:
- mkdir $dir/a
- for i in 1 2 3; do echo foo > $dir/a/$i; done
- tail -f $dir/a/*
- (in another window) doas rm -rf $dir
#0 0x1664d4fa in tfreopen (tf=0x7f57732c) at forward.c:353
353 if (stat(ttf->fname, &sb) == -1)
(gdb) bt
#0 0x1664d4fa in tfreopen (tf=0x7f57732c) at forward.c:353
#1 0x1664cca8 in forward (tf=0x7f577000, nfiles=10, style=RLINES, origoff=10)
at forward.c:224
#2 0x1664f098 in main (argc=10, argv=0xcf7c96f8) at tail.c:167
(gdb) frame 0
#0 0x1664d4fa in tfreopen (tf=0x7f57732c) at forward.c:353
353 if (stat(ttf->fname, &sb) == -1)
(gdb) p ttf
$1 = (struct tailfile *) 0x0
