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| -rw-r--r-- | coreutils/tail.c | 6 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | testsuite/tail.tests | 8 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/coreutils/tail.c b/coreutils/tail.c index 454c259..43cecbd 100644 --- a/coreutils/tail.c +++ b/coreutils/tail.c @@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ int tail_main(int argc, char **argv) int fd = fds[i]; if (ENABLE_FEATURE_FANCY_TAIL && fd < 0) - continue; /* may happen with -E */ + continue; /* may happen with -F */ if (nfiles > header_threshhold) { tail_xprint_header(fmt, argv[i]); @@ -252,14 +252,14 @@ int tail_main(int argc, char **argv) * Used only by +N code ("start from Nth", 1-based): */ seen = 1; newlines_seen = 0; - while ((nread = tail_read(fd, buf, tailbufsize-taillen)) > 0) { + while ((nread = tail_read(fd, buf, tailbufsize - taillen)) > 0) { if (G.from_top) { int nwrite = nread; if (seen < count) { /* We need to skip a few more bytes/lines */ if (COUNT_BYTES) { nwrite -= (count - seen); - seen = count; + seen += nread; } else { char *s = buf; do { diff --git a/testsuite/tail.tests b/testsuite/tail.tests index 7140da2..305a83b 100755 --- a/testsuite/tail.tests +++ b/testsuite/tail.tests @@ -14,4 +14,12 @@ testing "tail: +N with N > file length" \ "0\n" \ "" "qw" +testing "tail: -c +N with largish N" \ + " + dd if=/dev/zero bs=16k count=1 2>/dev/null | tail -c +8200 | wc -c; + dd if=/dev/zero bs=16k count=1 2>/dev/null | tail -c +8208 | wc -c; + " \ + "8185\n8177\n" \ + "" "" + exit $FAILCOUNT |