From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 22:11:15 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: tail: Fix bug with -f and pipes; remove --max-consecutive-size-changes.
X-Git-Tag: v5.3.0~1108
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2ebcff3337cd18ad56779887fef0895799a29ebe;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

tail: Fix bug with -f and pipes; remove --max-consecutive-size-changes.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 24235febea..2f7c4fd597 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
   rm no longer requires read access to the current directory.
 
+  tail -f no longer mishandles pipes and fifos.  With no operands,
+  tail now ignores -f if standard input is a pipe, as POSIX requires.
+
   For some types of errors (e.g., read-only file system, I/O error)
   when first encountering a directory, `rm -r' would mistakenly fail
   to remove files under that directory.
@@ -157,6 +160,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   The stat option --filesystem has been renamed to --file-system, for
   consistency with POSIX "file system" and with cp and du --one-file-system.
 
+** Removed features
+
+  tail's undocumented --max-consecutive-size-changes option has been removed.
+
 * Major changes in release 5.2.1 (2004-03-12) [stable]
 
 ** Bug fixes