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

[Garrett D'Amore]

Can we talk about this?

Chris has finished his work and is near to integration already.  Is
there some compelling reason why the ksh93 version is "better"?

	- Garrett

On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 18:42 +0200, I. Szczesniak wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 5:58 PM, I. Szczesniak <iszczesniak at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Garrett D'Amore <garrett at nexenta.com> wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 17:21 +0200, I. Szczesniak wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Garrett D'Amore <garrett at nexenta.com> wrote:
> >>> > 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.
> >>>
> >>> To my knowledge AST tail version in ON B146 has 2 known bugs:
> >>> - tail -0f will cat the whole file before following it. The tail.c in
> >>> Roland's prototype40 tree has this fixed.
> >>
> >> I think it was this problem that was what had been complained about.
> >> Unfortunately, we don't have that code in illumos, and I have no idea
> >> how to go about getting it from Roland's private workspace (and there is
> >> of course the question of whether doing so is a good idea or not....)
> >
> > The new tail.c can be downloaded from
> > http://svn.genunix.org/repos/on/branches/ksh93/gisburn/prototype040/usr/src/libcmd/common/tail.c
> >
> > Furthermore, if neither Roland or Olga respond by Saturday evening I
> > am happy to try to merge Roland's workspace into Illumos myself or
> > assign one of my own engineers to do it.
> 
> Garrett, I've assigned two of my engineers to begin with the merge and
> testing, including /usr/bin/tail and /usr/xpg4/bin/tail VSC tests. I
> should have a schedule by tomorrow afternoon.
> 
> Irek
> 
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