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rrconkle opened this issue Jul 6, 2024 · 1 comment
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tail: --pid doesn't work when reading from stdin #6543

rrconkle opened this issue Jul 6, 2024 · 1 comment
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rrconkle commented Jul 6, 2024

tail --pid doesn't work when reading from stdin

sleep 5 & tail --pid=$! -f /dev/null #works fine
sleep 5 & tail --pid=$! -f </dev/null #closes immediately
just-an-engineer pushed a commit to just-an-engineer/coreutils that referenced this issue Jul 18, 2024
Added in logic in tail to be able to follow stdin when a PID is speci…
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…fied to match GNU behavior and fix issue uutils#6543
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sylvestre pushed a commit to just-an-engineer/coreutils that referenced this issue Jul 25, 2024
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Added in logic in tail to be able to follow stdin when a PID is speci…
85e4896 
…fied to match GNU behavior and fix issue uutils#6543
sylvestre pushed a commit to just-an-engineer/coreutils that referenced this issue Jul 26, 2024
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Added in logic in tail to be able to follow stdin when a PID is speci…
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…fied to match GNU behavior and fix issue uutils#6543
sylvestre added a commit that referenced this issue Dec 2, 2024
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tail: fix issue #6543 (--pid when reading from stdin) (#6582)
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Co-authored-by: just-an-engineer <Julian.Beltz@zetier.com>
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Looks like this is working since #6582 was merged, should it be closed?

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