bug in tail (textutils 2.0)

[Adam Bolton]

Hi There,

I may have discovered a bug in the tail -f function of the textutils
which causes tail not to follow the file.

This occurs is the file which is being followed is zero'd and the
contents
updated to the exact same file size before the tail comes out of sleep
mode.

solution would be to check the modification time to see if the file has
changed and if the size is either smaller or the same, then a reset to
zero size has happened.

        stat(DATAFILE,&st);
        if(st.st_mtime!=mtime)
        {
            /* Okay, file has changed, now check the size to see if we
*/
            /* need to seek back to the begining or not.  */  
            if(st.st_size<=oldsize)
            {
                fseek(fp,0,SEEK_SET);
            }
            oldsize=st.st_size;
            mtime=st.st_mtime;

Cheers,
Adam.
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