From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Apr 15 7: 8:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2652337B42C; Sun, 15 Apr 2001 07:08:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 15 Apr 2001 15:08:06 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 15:08:05 +0100 From: David Malone To: "Bruce A. Mah" Cc: Ken Menzel , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tail of file larger than 2 gig fails (patch) Message-ID: <20010415150805.A82282@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <000901c0c399$13f7e680$711663cf@icarz.com> <200104122201.f3CM1Ad17532@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200104122201.f3CM1Ad17532@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com>; from bmah@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 03:01:09PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 03:01:09PM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > If memory serves me right, "Ken Menzel" wrote: > > I had a problem today with a very large log file (3.6 gig) I wanted to > > see the last few lines but 'tail' wanted to show me the last gig or > > so. Anyway I made it work, I don't know if this is the right list, > > because I have never submitted a patch before. Could someone > > committer either advise me where to send this patch or take a look at > > it and commit it if it looks OK? > > FYI: tail(1) in 5-CURRENT was modified to handle large files a few > weeks ago, in response to PR bin/14786. These changes haven't been > MFC-ed yet. Maybe you should drop a note to dwmalone. The changes were quite large and though I gave them a good testing I think it may be too late to merge the changes in for 4.3. I'll get Jordan's take on it though. David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message