Bug#70762: textutils: tail segfault
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 01:22:44PM -0800, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 08:10:22AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> > > Sure, but it would also be reasonable to flush the buffer to the screen
> > > every (screensize/2) so that a human could follow it.
>
> > Tail can't do that until it finds the new lines...
>
> s/can't/doesn't/ ? Sounds like an upstream bug...
Huh? tail is meant to show you the last ten lines. Until you've read
all the output, how are you meant to know whether they're the last ten?
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