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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2016-11-08 17:34:44 +0000 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2016-11-08 23:19:08 +0000 |
| commit | 2a809125299261db9db9b97e93b5885223c6e9d3 (patch) | |
| tree | 5940d90ba24dfa28c8715a99bea76f57193e6415 /NEWS | |
| parent | 23066be1b655fd81542761161c4f7ef37dc0813b (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-2a809125299261db9db9b97e93b5885223c6e9d3.tar.xz | |
tail: terminate when following pipes and untailable non pipes
* src/tail.c (ignore_pipe_or_fifo): Mark the descriptor as -1
for pipes so that any_live_files() detects correctly that
the entry is no longer live.
* tests/tail-2/pipe-f.sh: Add a test case.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/24903 which was detected
using Symbolic Execution techniques developed in
the course of the SYMBIOSYS research project at
COMSYS, RWTH Aachen University.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -51,6 +51,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- and is now handled correctly in all cases. [bug introduced in fileutils-4.0h] + tail -f - 'untailable file' will now terminate when there is no more data + to read from stdin. Previously it behaved as if --retry was specified. + [This bug was present in "the beginning".] + yes now handles short writes, rather than assuming all writes complete. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.24] |