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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2006-09-08 17:19:51 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2006-09-08 17:19:51 +0000 |
| commit | 5c81574ed52d294a58617c9bb8b86fb0caa1f71e (patch) | |
| tree | 8faccf4d3991af4d9ec5a8f90f9a440e0d4261b5 /doc | |
| parent | d7619b5fe899074ef196154b2eec54d51290d450 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-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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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 2 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog index 3f863b08b..f2d23be3b 100644 --- a/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2006-09-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Ignore -f when standard input + is a FIFO, too. + 2006-09-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> * coreutils.texi (Treating / specially): --preserve-root is diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 08de387fe..51493874c 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -2578,7 +2578,7 @@ with the long form of the option, not with @option{-f}. @vindex POSIXLY_CORRECT If @env{POSIXLY_CORRECT} is set, the @option{-f} option is ignored if -no @var{file} operand is specified and standard input is a pipe. +no @var{file} operand is specified and standard input is a FIFO or a pipe. @item -F @opindex -F |