David Malone
726098d35e
Fix tail to work on files bigger than 2GB.
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PR: 14786
Reviewed by: iedowse
2001-03-27 20:37:34 +00:00
Peter Wemm
eb1c943900
Add a new -F flag which is a superset of -f. It will cause tail to
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stat() the file being followed and do a close/reopen if the file has been
renamed and/or rotated. This is damn useful for leaving running on files
in /var/log when newsyslog(8) rotates them.
1998-04-06 16:13:49 +00:00
Peter Wemm
ac5512704d
Argh! caught! *blush*.. This program was supplying it's own 'err' routine
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which was slightly different to the libc one. To save any more cunfusion,
use the libc one.
1996-08-25 21:12:01 +00:00
Adam David
49a598ab87
when file can be opened for read but cannot be read from:
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fail once (was twice) in forward case
fail once (was no times) in reverse case
this can happen when file is a directory on an NFS or procfs mount.
1996-07-30 13:11:43 +00:00
Rodney W. Grimes
9b50d90275
BSD 4.4 Lite Usr.bin Sources
1994-05-27 12:33:43 +00:00
