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maybe a bug for "tail"

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From: yukuan <yukuan <at> huawei.com>
To: "bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org" <bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org>
Subject: maybe a bug for "tail"
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 07:27:42 +0000

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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.
(BTW, it's a log file with timestamp, so I am sure the file is growing. And while writing this mail, the file in another window stops, again.)
Maybe it is a bug, or not. Please explain this for me.
Thanks!

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