Jim Meyering wrote: > Ulrich Drepper wrote: >> Jim Meyering wrote: >>> Thanks for the report! > > Ulrich and Ren reported that the command, > > echo foobar | tail -c3 -f > > would block indefinitely, while POSIX says that it must not.
This seems to be handled already (see line 1926): echo foobar | POSIXLY_CORRECT="" tail -c3 -f Also there is the stdin_cmdline_arg bit below this new chunk. Is that now rendered redundant? It seems that these 3 chunks should be merged. cheers, Pádraig.
