[BusyBox] small fix for tail
Glenn McGrath
bug1 at iinet.net.au
Thu Sep 30 00:27:40 UTC 2004
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:58:32 -0400
William Barsse <wbarsse at pfn.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I run 'tail' on more than one file I get a SIGSEGV, this seems to
>
> be due to some variables not being reinitialized when from the first
> files to the next.
Thanks, ive checked in your patch.
What options were you using to get the segfault ?
The bug i see it fix is the following
Before patch
$ ./busybox tail -n 2 AUTHORS TODO
==> AUTHORS <==
devfsd and size optimizations in strings, openvt, chvt, deallocvt,
hdparm and fdformat.
==> TODO <==
$
After patch
$ ./busybox tail -n 2 AUTHORS TODO
==> AUTHORS <==
devfsd and size optimizations in strings, openvt, chvt, deallocvt,
hdparm and fdformat.
==> TODO <==
----
$
Note the first example didnt have any lines under TODO.
Glenn
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