Hi Andreas, On 2016-04-13 06:49 AM, Andreas Henriksson wrote: >> This regression was introduced upstream by this commit: >> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/?id=54c6611d6f7b73609a5331f4d0bcf63c4af6429e > > Thanks for your exemplary bug report. I mentioned it to upstream which > promptly answered that it's now fixed in > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/?id=b2bff0666101213d5ce9fc4166d8fc5b17581f57
What a quick turnaround! Thank you and Karel too. I'm lucky as the patch applies cleanly on Ubuntu's version which is where the bug was first noticed [*]. > Please feel free to notify upstream directly in the future if you find > any similar issues. Will do. > PS. Please note that tailf is deprecated. Use tail -f .... Good to know. FTR, "tail -f" is what I noticed the problem with but I switched to tailf because it was from the same source tree so easier to bisect. Regards, Simon *: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/1553353

