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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2006-09-08 17:19:51 +0000
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2006-09-08 17:19:51 +0000
commit5c81574ed52d294a58617c9bb8b86fb0caa1f71e (patch)
tree8faccf4d3991af4d9ec5a8f90f9a440e0d4261b5 /NEWS
parentd7619b5fe899074ef196154b2eec54d51290d450 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-5c81574ed52d294a58617c9bb8b86fb0caa1f71e.tar.xz
tail now ignores the -f option if POSIXLY_CORRECT is set,
no file operand is given, and standard input is any FIFO.
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@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
now fails without removing anything. Likewise for any file name with
a final `./' or `../' component.
+ tail now ignores the -f option if POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, no file
+ operand is given, and standard input is any FIFO; formerly it did
+ this only for pipes.
+
** Infrastructure changes
Coreutils now uses gnulib via the gnulib-tool script.