Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 16:58:25 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/tail forward.c Message-ID: <20010328165823.A36803@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <20010328084457.A91235@walton.maths.tcd.ie>; from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 08:44:57AM %2B0100 References: <200103272324.f2RNOQc56458@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010328084457.A91235@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
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On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 08:44:57 +0100, David Malone wrote: > The problem is that you only want to seek to the end of the data > you have already displayed, not to the end of the file. Otherwise > if you are using "tail -f" and the file grows between the original > stat and the fseek you will not print the data in between. > > Can you confirm that fseeko(file_size, SEEK_SET) is actually correct? I agree. I'll back my change out. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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