From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 18:24:46 +0000 (+0000)
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-2003-05-28  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
+2003-06-01  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
 
 	* Version 5.0.1.
 
+	Avoid a race condition in `tail -f' described by Ken Raeburn in
+	http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-textutils/2003-05/msg00007.html
+	* src/tail.c (file_lines): Add new parameter, *read_pos, and set it.
+	(pipe_lines): Likewise.
+	(pipe_bytes): Likewise.
+	(start_bytes): Likewise.
+	(start_lines): Likewise.
+	(tail_bytes): Likewise.
+	(tail_lines): Likewise.
+	(tail): Likewise.
+	(tail_file): Use the new `read_pos' value as the size,
+	rather than stats.st_size from the fstat call.
+
+2003-05-28  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
+
 	* src/extract-magic: Allow expansion of `$file' in the here-
 	document corresponding to the comment at the top of fs.h.