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 #16 received at 10442-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 10442-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, yukuan <yukuan <at> huawei.com>
Subject: Re: bug#10442: maybe a bug for "tail"
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:49:29 +0000

tags 10442 notabug

On 01/06/2012 10:58 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> 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"?

In private mails, the user confirmed that
the file is being renamed, and thus -F is required.

cheers,
Pádraig.
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