Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 15:19:43 +1000 (EST) From: andy@silverbrook.com.au To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin/20050: tail -f exits Message-ID: <200007200519.PAA19069@bebop.silverbrook.com.au>
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>Number: 20050 >Category: bin >Synopsis: tail -f exits >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed Jul 19 22:20:03 PDT 2000 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Andy Newman >Release: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386 >Organization: Silverbrook Research >Environment: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE, build world from CVSup'd sources June 26 2000. >Description: 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. >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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