On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 11:05:34 +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: > Ernst Kloppenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > Thanks for the report. > I can't reproduce that using the latest test release on the same > type of system. Would you please try it? >
Hello, before downloading and trying your test release I installed a more recent version of textutils from debian/testing (the debian package is version 2.0-11). It does *not* show the problem described above. I had not tried this in the first place because there is only a difference in the debian package version after the dash, but not in the upstream version (still 2.0). Maybe I should have done it first... Thus it seems, the problem is already fixed in the debian package and in your alpha version. Thanks, E. Kloppenburg -- Ernst Kloppenburg Stuttgart, Germany _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
