From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 20:54:33 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (tail invocation): Do not ignore -f for
X-Git-Tag: v5.3.0~1112
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3f565ee1fe8e562dafda995b6b629af36f95ab5b;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(tail invocation): Do not ignore -f for
all pipes, just for when standard input is a pipe and no
file operand is specified.
---

diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 007c8b45e8..6f93e10dcd 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -2426,8 +2426,8 @@ by 1048576.
 @vindex name @r{follow option}
 @vindex descriptor @r{follow option}
 Loop forever trying to read more characters at the end of the file,
-presumably because the file is growing.  This option is ignored when
-reading from a pipe.
+presumably because the file is growing.  This option is ignored if
+no @var{file} operand is specified and standard input is a pipe.
 If more than one file is given, @command{tail} prints a header whenever it
 gets output from a different file, to indicate which file that output is
 from.