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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 01:21:15 -0800 (PST)
From: chris@zeus.foote.com.au
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Subject: bin/24730: tail -f barfs on files bigger than 2 Gig
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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:
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