Eric Blake wrote: >> Solaris 10 failures: >> tail-2/flush-initial (patch attached) > > Hmm. We should reword the NEWS entry (right now, it states that the > failure was rare because stdbuf was not always used; but your analysis of > this failure proves that it can indeed be more common).
Do you know of many uses of tail -f that write to a file? Most of the ones I've seen would output to a tty or similar device.
