Bug 10420

Summary:	tail -f crashes on directories
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Joshua Jensen <joshua>
Component:	textutils	Assignee:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
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Version:	6.2	CC:	dr, twaugh
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Description Joshua Jensen 2000-03-29 19:34:43 UTC

tail -f /etc/sysctl.conf /etc/sysconfig/*

==> /etc/sysconfig/static-routes <==

tail: tail.c:718: recheck: Assertion `valid_file_spec (f)' failed.
Aborted (core
dumped)

[root@localhost /root]# file /etc/sysconfig/static-routes
/etc/sysconfig/static-routes: EMPTY file

Then I used pico to put one blank line into the file

/etc/sysconfig/static-routes:   ASCII text

tail still crashes.  It shouldn't do this for an emtpy file, esp. after
I tell it that it is an ASCII text file with a blank line.

Joshua

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2000-04-06 13:58:59 UTC

Here's a smaller test case that demonstrates the real problem:

tail -f /

Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2000-04-06 14:21:59 UTC

This is fixed in <URL:ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/textutils-2.0e.tar.gz>.