Bug 20050

Summary:	tail -f exits
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	andy <andy>
Component:	bin	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	4.0-STABLE
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description andy 2000-07-20 06:20:03 UTC

	Tail -f on the output of a long running job is exiting.  Sometimes
	there is a message "Resource temporarily unavailable" (i.e, something
	returned EAGAIN) and other times there is no message but the exit status
	is 1.

How-To-Repeat: 
	Have a long running job with large amounts of output directing
	its output to a file, make buildworld is a good candidate. Then
	tail -f the file the output is being sent to. Wait for it to
	exit.

Comment 1 Sheldon Hearn freebsd_committer

2000-07-20 08:13:48 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

Could you update your source to some time after Jul 18 2000 
and try again?  The way tail detects changes in a file has 
been changed by jlemon.

Comment 2 andy 2000-07-28 06:37:01 UTC

Switching to 4.1-STABLE appears to have "fixed" the problem, or at least
it's harder to reproduce.  This PR can be closed I guess.
-- 
Andy Newman

Comment 3 Sheldon Hearn freebsd_committer

2000-07-28 09:49:11 UTC

State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

Originator requested a close, since 4.1-STABLE seems to have 
fixed the problem.