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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2006-07-01 23:53:05 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2006-07-01 23:53:05 +0000 |
| commit | 31acf81fa092fabe5fde9b3f23d564ff2f0b02a3 (patch) | |
| tree | 2f6c95939931e89548c509eddc789883f6010433 /NEWS | |
| parent | 2d33a9301bf506d906cc9311f058efadff501806 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-31acf81fa092fabe5fde9b3f23d564ff2f0b02a3.tar.xz | |
With no operand, 'tail -f' now silently ignores the '-f'
only if standard input is a FIFO or pipe and POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -105,6 +105,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- two hex digits), and the standard sequences (\a, \b, \f, \n, \r, \t, \v, \", \\). + With no operand, 'tail -f' now silently ignores the '-f' only if + standard input is a FIFO or pipe and POSIXLY_CORRECT is set. + Formerly, it ignored the '-f' when standard input was a FIFO, pipe, + or socket. + ** Scheduled for removal ptx's --copyright (-C) option is scheduled for removal in 2007, and |