Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 01:21:15 -0800 (PST) From: chris@zeus.foote.com.au To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/24730: tail -f barfs on files bigger than 2 Gig Message-ID: <200101300921.f0U9LFv88716@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 24730 >Category: bin >Synopsis: tail -f barfs on files bigger than 2 Gig >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Jan 30 01:30:01 PST 2001 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Chris Foote >Release: 4.2 Stable >Organization: SE Net >Environment: FreeBSD zeus.foote.com.au 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #0: Fri Jan 26 09:25:43 CST 2001 root@zeus.foote.com.au:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ZEUS i386 >Description: `tail filename` and `tail -f filename` has problems when filename is more than 2 Gig in size. tail proceeds to 'cat' the entire file from it's beginning, and reports a wierd error to stderr: zeus(chris)$ tail bigfile.txt > /dev/null tail: bigfile.txt: Invalid argument ^C >How-To-Repeat: Create a file bigger than 2 Gig and tail it. >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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