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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2004-07-23 22:11:15 +0000
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2004-07-23 22:11:15 +0000
commit2ebcff3337cd18ad56779887fef0895799a29ebe (patch)
tree283b45b75d55cd58ffecef7a57d4ce469bd1a89d /NEWS
parentaf73da6cdf83c992a99a206cf060bb925ae57099 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-2ebcff3337cd18ad56779887fef0895799a29ebe.tar.xz
tail: Fix bug with -f and pipes; remove --max-consecutive-size-changes.
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@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
rm no longer requires read access to the current directory.
+ tail -f no longer mishandles pipes and fifos. With no operands,
+ tail now ignores -f if standard input is a pipe, as POSIX requires.
+
For some types of errors (e.g., read-only file system, I/O error)
when first encountering a directory, `rm -r' would mistakenly fail
to remove files under that directory.
@@ -157,6 +160,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
The stat option --filesystem has been renamed to --file-system, for
consistency with POSIX "file system" and with cp and du --one-file-system.
+** Removed features
+
+ tail's undocumented --max-consecutive-size-changes option has been removed.
+
* Major changes in release 5.2.1 (2004-03-12) [stable]
** Bug fixes