From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 07:02:35 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (tail_file): Set errnum to -1 if the initial "tail" failed.
X-Git-Tag: v5.3.0~222
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cd9d7fd2bdb870dd860a3d7d371cf7482dedf5ac;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

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

diff --git a/src/tail.c b/src/tail.c
index fba74ecc3c..f09fbd6173 100644
--- a/src/tail.c
+++ b/src/tail.c
@@ -1317,7 +1317,7 @@ tail_file (struct File_spec *f, uintmax_t n_units)
 	     call made the window big enough to exercise the problem.  */
 	  sleep (1);
 #endif
-	  f->errnum = 0;
+	  f->errnum = ok - 1;
 	  if (fstat (fd, &stats) < 0)
 	    {
 	      ok = false;