From: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivano@gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:57:29 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: tail: exit successfully upon watched process death
X-Git-Tag: v7.5~37
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d3feea0181720d6e872875c52200511a5e5878a0;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

tail: exit successfully upon watched process death

* src/tail.c (tail_forever_inotify): If a PID is specified and the
watched process dies, exit with status EXIT_SUCCESS, rather than
falling through to an EXIT_FAILURE.
---

diff --git a/src/tail.c b/src/tail.c
index a73ffa25df..5efaf57d98 100644
--- a/src/tail.c
+++ b/src/tail.c
@@ -1280,7 +1280,7 @@ tail_forever_inotify (int wd, struct File_spec *f, size_t n_files,
             {
               /* See if the process we are monitoring is still alive.  */
               if (kill (pid, 0) != 0 && errno != EPERM)
-                break;
+                exit (EXIT_SUCCESS);
 
               continue;
             }