[illumos-Developer] [REVIEW] 244: Need replacement for closed /usr/bin/tail and /usr/xpg4/bin/tail

[Cedric Blancher]

On 22 September 2010 07:07,  <cjlove at san.rr.com> wrote:
> I'd like a review of 244: Need replacement for closed /usr/bin/tail
> and /usr/xpg4/bin/tail
>
> Two webrevs are provided:
> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~cjlove/tail  - relative to Illumos source tree
> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~cjlove/tail_freebsd - relative to original FreeBSD code
>
> Two testsuites are included in usr/src/cmd/tail/tests: one derived
> from the libshell testsuite for tail, one derived from the GNU
> CoreUtils testsuite.  Both testsuites have been validated against
> legacy Solaris tail and the new tail.
>
> I've done nightly and Illumos boots with the replacement tail in
> place.  There is also an x86 tail binary attached to the defect).

Why are you doing this work when an already SUN tested and working
/usr/bin/tail and /usr/xpg4/bin/tail replacement is already in the
tree?
Try cp /usr/bin/alias /tmp/tail

Ced
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Cedric Blancher <cedric.blancher at googlemail.com>
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