POSIX is considering standardizing the Solaris/BSD behavior of 'tail -r' rather than adding the GNU extension of 'tac' as a separate utility: http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=877 This bug report serves as a reminder that we need to add 'tail -r' support to coreutils, as well as a request for reviewers for the current state of the proposal to make sure that it is not an onerous burden for adding that code. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org