Package: coreutils Version: 9.1-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
Quoth tail(1):
--pid=PID
with -f, terminate after process ID, PID dies
Discounting the weird phrasing, the functionality is clear,
as is the domain: processes have IDs in [1, system_limit)
([1, kernel.pid_max) under linux).
If tail --pid=-1 were accepted, then one would expect tail --pid=0 to
behave the same way.
But tail --pid=-1 is forbidden
(since by definition no process may have a negative PID),
but tail --pid=0 is allowed and just does nothing, even though it's
precisely the same case as -1?
Best,
наб
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