Re: baseN: new program suggestion (various 'base' encoding)

2019-01-21 Thread Jim Meyering
On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 9:27 PM Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 13/01/19 22:16, Pádraig Brady wrote: > > Ok I've sent a gnulib patch to support disbling VLA use with GNULIB_NO_VLA, > > which is enabled in coreutils with the attached. > > Both now pushed at: > >

Re: tail -f finish upon another process finish writing to the file

2019-01-21 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 21/01/19 12:27, Peng Yu wrote: > Hi, > > I use tail -f to show a file as it grows. However, if the process > which writes to the file is finished, tail -f will still wait there. > Is there a way to let tail -f finish once it detects nobody writes to > the file? Thanks. tail has the --pid

tail -f finish upon another process finish writing to the file

2019-01-21 Thread Peng Yu
Hi, I use tail -f to show a file as it grows. However, if the process which writes to the file is finished, tail -f will still wait there. Is there a way to let tail -f finish once it detects nobody writes to the file? Thanks. -- Regards, Peng

Re: Can timeout prevent process being stuck in D state

2019-01-21 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 1/21/19 10:17 AM, Marc Roos wrote: > I have had a process stuck in D+ state, and need to run it still a few > times. If I use timeout, will it prevent this process being stuck in D+ > state until a reboot? Basically, timeout is sending a signal to the process it has started after the TIMEOUT

Can timeout prevent process being stuck in D state

2019-01-21 Thread Marc Roos
I have had a process stuck in D+ state, and need to run it still a few times. If I use timeout, will it prevent this process being stuck in D+ state until a reboot?