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| -rw-r--r-- | src/tail.c | 4 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | tests/tail-2/tail-n0f.sh | 5 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/tail.c b/src/tail.c index ca851ee6f..cdaecddc4 100644 --- a/src/tail.c +++ b/src/tail.c @@ -2149,6 +2149,10 @@ main (int argc, char **argv) " indefinitely is ineffective")); } + /* Don't read anything if we'll never output anything. */ + if (! n_units && ! forever && ! from_start) + exit (EXIT_SUCCESS); + F = xnmalloc (n_files, sizeof *F); for (i = 0; i < n_files; i++) F[i].name = file[i]; diff --git a/tests/tail-2/tail-n0f.sh b/tests/tail-2/tail-n0f.sh index a8d375978..1c6ba89eb 100755 --- a/tests/tail-2/tail-n0f.sh +++ b/tests/tail-2/tail-n0f.sh @@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ require_proc_pid_status_ touch empty || framework_failure_ echo anything > nonempty || framework_failure_ +# First verify that -[nc]0 without -f, exit without reading +touch unreadable || framework_failure_ +chmod 0 unreadable || framework_failure_ +tail -c0 unreadable || fail=1 +tail -n0 unreadable || fail=1 for inotify in ---disable-inotify ''; do for file in empty nonempty; do |