[BusyBox-cvs] [BusyBox 0000265]: tail -f should keep following files even if they were truncated

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED.
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<http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=265> 
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Reported By:                owlman
Assigned To:                BusyBox
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Project:                    BusyBox
Issue ID:                   265
Category:                   New Features
Reproducibility:            N/A
Severity:                   feature
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             05-20-2005 01:45 PDT
Last Modified:              05-20-2005 01:45 PDT
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Summary:                    tail -f should keep following files even if they
were truncated
Description: 
The current implementation of tail doesn't keep watching truncated logs: it
simply looks if anything was been added beyond the current reading
position, it does not adjust for file truncation. This patch is inspired
from Chip Rosenthal's xtail which i downloaded from
http://www.unicom.com/sw/xtail/
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Issue History
Date Modified  Username       Field                    Change              
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05-20-05 01:45 owlman         New Issue                                    
05-20-05 01:45 owlman         File Added: tail.c.diff                      
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