Hello, I am using 'tail' from textutils 2.0-6 on a Debian GNU/Linux system.
When tail is used in a pipe, it behaves strangely when the option --follow=name is given. The behaviour I found strange is illustrated by the following example: 1) tail -f /var/log/syslog | wc when wc is terminated by kill <pid>, the tail program exits the next time a line is written to the file followed. This makes sense, because at this time it is detekted that the pipe is broken. 2) tail --follow=name /var/log/syslog | wc in this case, when wc is killed, the tail command never terminates Is this a bug, as I suspect? Best regards, E. Kloppenburg -- Ernst Kloppenburg Stuttgart, Germany _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
