Re: [Toybox] [PATCH] tail fixes

2013-09-18 Thread Felix Janda
Rob Landley wrote: Catching up on email while waiting at the airport. (Ohio Linuxfest!) On 09/06/2013 04:48:10 PM, Felix Janda wrote: Rob Landley wrote: What The Hurd implements is not. Those religious fanatics are simply not relevant, except sometimes as a warning of what _not_ to do.

Re: [Toybox] [PATCH] tail fixes

2013-09-04 Thread Rob Landley
Replying with gmail, sorry if this winds up a bit garbled... On 8/31/13, Felix Janda felix.ja...@posteo.de wrote: This should now hopefully fix the earlier segfaults. Yay! (Applied on the theory that what's there segfaults.) In the case that lseek doesn't work and we count from the end the

[Toybox] [PATCH] tail fixes

2013-08-31 Thread Felix Janda
This should now hopefully fix the earlier segfaults. In the case that lseek doesn't work and we count from the end the algorithms for tail -n and tail -c are now more separate. (tail -c is now more efficient since it adds lenghts instead of counting bytes.) POSIX tail BTW does only accept one