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| -rw-r--r-- | src/tail.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/tail.c b/src/tail.c index e5e4e852d..d6dac195c 100644 --- a/src/tail.c +++ b/src/tail.c @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ /* tail -- output the last part of file(s) - Copyright (C) 89, 90, 91, 95, 96, 1997, 1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + Copyright (C) 89, 90, 91, 1995-1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by @@ -838,6 +838,10 @@ tail_bytes (const char *pretty_filename, int fd, off_t n_bytes) { struct stat stats; + /* We need binary input, since `tail' relies on `lseek' and byte counts, + while binary output will preserve the style (Unix/DOS) of text file. */ + SET_BINARY2 (fd, STDOUT_FILENO); + /* FIXME: resolve this like in dd.c. */ /* Use fstat instead of checking for errno == ESPIPE because lseek doesn't work on some special files but doesn't return an @@ -915,6 +919,10 @@ tail_lines (const char *pretty_filename, int fd, long int n_lines) struct stat stats; off_t length; + /* We need binary input, since `tail' relies on `lseek' and byte counts, + while binary output will preserve the style (Unix/DOS) of text file. */ + SET_BINARY2 (fd, STDOUT_FILENO); + if (fstat (fd, &stats)) { error (0, errno, "%s", pretty_filename); |