FYI, I have created the following bug report in JIRA for this issue:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-274

Frank Grimes


On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 1:32 PM, frankgrimes97 <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> We are using org.apache.commons.io.input.Tailer to process log files for
> insertion into a database.
>
> What we are seeing is that occasionally a line fails to process because it
> is incomplete.
> In reviewing the code, it appears that Tailer.readLines delegates to
> java.io.RandomAccessFile.readLine which returns a partial line if EOF is
> reached.
>
> Shouldn't Tailer be providing a guarantee of complete lines?
> Should we create a bug report for this?
>
> FYI, we are using 1.6.0_15 on Linux.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Frank Grimes
>

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