From 2ebcff3337cd18ad56779887fef0895799a29ebe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 22:11:15 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] tail: Fix bug with -f and pipes; remove --max-consecutive-size-changes. --- NEWS | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) 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 -- 2.47.2