From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 12 15: 1:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sj-msg-core-2.cisco.com (sj-msg-core-2.cisco.com [171.69.43.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B723F37B42C for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 15:01:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@cisco.com) Received: from bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com (bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com [171.70.84.42]) by sj-msg-core-2.cisco.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA17030; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 15:01:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f3CM1Ad17532; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 15:01:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200104122201.f3CM1Ad17532@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/19/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "Ken Menzel" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tail of file larger than 2 gig fails (patch) In-Reply-To: <000901c0c399$13f7e680$711663cf@icarz.com> References: <000901c0c399$13f7e680$711663cf@icarz.com> Comments: In-reply-to "Ken Menzel" message dated "Thu, 12 Apr 2001 17:39:39 -0400." From: "Bruce A. Mah" Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_250520767P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 15:01:09 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --==_Exmh_250520767P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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. Cheers, Bruce. --==_Exmh_250520767P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 iD8DBQE61iWl2MoxcVugUsMRAu5+AKCX2nhcWp+OEGHSJRv+9GpIeOG2jwCg78dg Rh1qpE8jvu/W7MAIsTMfuTg= =/bgr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_250520767P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message