tail: fix behaviour of tail -n0 in follow mode#9114
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Could you please add a test to make sure we don't regress in the future? Thanks |
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@sylvestre It should be fixed now |
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* tail: fix behaviour of -n0 in follow mode * tests: added test for checking -n0 in follow mode --------- Co-authored-by: Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org>
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Fixed incorrect handling of
tail -n0 -fin the bounded execution path.Also added logic to handle the case where the file size is less than
blksize_limit, which causes it to follow the unbounded execution pathFixes #9102