[illumos-Developer] Establishing requirements and test cases for tail replacement

[Joerg Schilling]

"Garrett D'Amore" <garrett at damore.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 13:59 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>
> > 
> > > The Solaris tail(1) manpage specifies LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE as affecting its behavior.  I see no evidence that the FreeBSD code deals with this issue and I'm going to plead some level of ignorance here as a US developer who has never dealt with anything other than the default POSIX locale.  
> > 
> > If you cannot do full tests (including non-US locales), I would vote against an 
> > integration. Tail rewinds by a known byte offset and then e.g. needs to be able to 
> > synchronize again on multi byte characters.
> > 
> > This is an essential feature that needs to be tested.
> > 
> > BTW: Doing this correctly even on stateful locales could forbid to use lseek(2) 
> > at all.
>
>
> A quick note:  We have an urgent need to replace some closed code.  Its
> likely that there will be some regressions in functionality.  If you
> want to help prevent these, then please get involved *constructively*.

This is why I wrote the previous mails, I am trying to help. If you are 
interested in constructive help, you are welcome.

Jörg

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