GNU bug report logs - #10442
maybe a bug for "tail"

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: yukuan <yukuan <at> huawei.com>

Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 07:44:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 10442 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: yukuan <yukuan <at> huawei.com>
Cc: 10442 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10442: maybe a bug for "tail"
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:58:07 +0100

yukuan <yukuan <at> huawei.com> writes:

> When I user "tail -f FILENAME" to follow a file, which is continually growing, the output sometimes stops. When I press ctrl-c to quit and right immediately follow the same file, output would continue. And I found the file is growing while the output stops.

Does it also happen if you use "tail -F"?

Andreas.

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