Re: Patch to fix data loss with `tail -F' (bug 6612)

[Jim Meyering]

Jos Backus <address@hidden> wrote:

> I see that coreutils-7.0 has been released without this change.
>
> To recap, I don't think I'm able to provide a more satisfactory patch. Is the
> consensus that I should just continue to apply my patch locally? That works
> for me; after all, it does fix my problem, introduces no known regressions
> that I'm aware of (FreeBSD has been running with this change for almost two
> years) and rebuilding coreutils is really only a minor inconvenience in the
> grand scheme of things.

Sorry it couldn't make it into 7.0.
The change I have in mind isn't complete, but the way
it's shaping up, it would have been too risky anyway.