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 >
