NetBSD Problem Report #57850

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From: rbranco@suse.de
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Subject: [patch] tail(1) is not able to operate on files residing in pseudo-filesystems
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>Number:         57850
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       [patch] tail(1) is not able to operate on files residing in pseudo-filesystems
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jan 14 15:45:00 +0000 2024
>Last-Modified:  Sun Jan 14 17:40:01 +0000 2024
>Originator:     Ricardo Branco
>Release:        NetBSD 10.0_RC2
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
tail(1) is not able to operate on files residing in pseudo-filesystems or others that advertise a zero size.

Fixed in FreeBSD: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=276107
>How-To-Repeat:
To reproduce: `tail -1 /proc/mounts` dumps the whole file.
>Fix:
https://github.com/NetBSD/src/pull/20

>Audit-Trail:
From: "Christos Zoulas" <christos@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@gnats.NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: PR/57850 CVS commit: src/usr.bin/tail
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2024 12:37:32 -0500

 Module Name:	src
 Committed By:	christos
 Date:		Sun Jan 14 17:37:32 UTC 2024

 Modified Files:
 	src/usr.bin/tail: forward.c

 Log Message:
 PR/57850: Ricardo Branco: tail does not work in some pseudo-filesystems
 From FreeBSD: https://github.com/NetBSD/src/pull/20


 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -u -r1.33 -r1.34 src/usr.bin/tail/forward.c

 Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
 copyright notices on the relevant files.

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