[PATCH] tail -f read very small blocks

Thomas Lange thomas at corelatus.se
Fri Oct 5 16:49:09 UTC 2007


There is a bug in tail -f(ollow) which causes all reads
to be 4 bytes only, regardless of how many bytes remain in file.

Patch for cvs head attached.

/Thomas
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