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@@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- from a failed stat/lstat. For example ls -Lis now prints "?", not "0", for the inode number and allocated size of a dereferenced dangling symlink. + tail --follow --pid now avoids a race condition where data written + just before the process dies might not have been output by tail. + Also, tail no longer delays at all when the specified pid is not live. + [The race was introduced in coreutils-7.5, + and the unnecessary delay was present since textutils-1.22o] + ** Portability On Solaris 9, many commands would mistakenly treat file/ the same as |