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

[Garrett D'Amore]

Does the ksh93 tail work well?  I had heard that there were some
situations where it was busted, but I've not researched it myself.

	- Garrett


On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 14:28 +0200, Cedric Blancher wrote:
> 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