* src/tail.c (tail_file): Set errnum to -1 if the initial "tail" failed.

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-2004-12-02  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
+2004-12-03  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
        * Version 5.3.0.
 
+       * src/tail.c (tail_file): Set errnum to -1 if the initial "tail"
+       failed.  This works around an assertion failure reported by
+       Roberto Nibali in:
+       http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-12/msg00012.html
+
+2004-12-02  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
+
        With using --color and with LS_COLORS saying not to color
        executables, don't stat every file.
        * src/ls.c (is_colored): New function.