tail -c 1 /dev/mtd3 hangs (v1.1.3)

[Steven Scholz]

Bernhard,

> How about using lseek() only for real files, i.e. (st_size > 0) and (st_rdev
> == 0) ?
> 
> What do you think of
> 
> static ssize_t tail_read(int fd, char *buf, size_t count)
> ...

Just in case you like it, attached a patch.

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Steven
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