GNU bug report logs - #29809
a bug with the "tail" command

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Jan Rogoyski <jan <at> rogoyski.com>

Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 05:26:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jan Rogoyski <jan <at> rogoyski.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: a bug with the "tail" command
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 23:49:04 -0500

I had a program writing to a file, 'list'.  And then I issued the 
command "tail -f list".

tail: unrecognized file system type 0x53464846 for 'list'. please report 
this to bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org. reverting to polling

The above message came out.

gcc --version displayed
gcc (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.3) 4.8.4

I'm using a bash shell in Windows 10.

"apt list" displayed
coreutils/trusty-updates,now 8.21-1ubuntu5.4 amd64 [installed]

Hope this is of some value to you.

Jan Rogoyski
This bug report was last modified 7 years and 210 days ago.

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