On Sun, Jun 9, 2019, 04:43 Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> wrote:
> * doc/coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Update to match
> the new behavior following commit v8.23-189-gb28ff6a
> ---
> ...
> No matter which method you use, if the tracked file is determined to have
> shrunk, @command{tail} prints a message saying the file has been truncated
> -and resumes tracking the end of the file from the newly-determined
> endpoint.
> +and resumes tracking from the start of the file, assuming it has been
> +truncated to 0, which is the usual truncation operation for log files.
>
Good point.
