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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/head.c | 4 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- factor again outputs immediately when numbers are input interactively. [bug introduced in coreutils-8.24] + head no longer tries to process non-seekable input as seekable, + which resulted in failures on FreeBSD 11 at least. + [bug introduced in coreutils-8.24] + install -DZ and mkdir -pZ now set default SELinux context correctly even if two or more directories nested in each other are created and each of them defaults to a different SELinux context. diff --git a/src/head.c b/src/head.c index 21ace70b4..756c978c6 100644 --- a/src/head.c +++ b/src/head.c @@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ elide_tail_bytes_file (const char *filename, int fd, uintmax_t n_elide, struct stat const *st, off_t current_pos) { off_t size = st->st_size; - if (presume_input_pipe || size <= ST_BLKSIZE (*st)) + if (presume_input_pipe || current_pos < 0 || size <= ST_BLKSIZE (*st)) return elide_tail_bytes_pipe (filename, fd, n_elide, current_pos); else { @@ -754,7 +754,7 @@ elide_tail_lines_file (const char *filename, int fd, uintmax_t n_elide, struct stat const *st, off_t current_pos) { off_t size = st->st_size; - if (presume_input_pipe || size <= ST_BLKSIZE (*st)) + if (presume_input_pipe || current_pos < 0 || size <= ST_BLKSIZE (*st)) return elide_tail_lines_pipe (filename, fd, n_elide, current_pos); else { |