From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Earnie Boyd To: thomas@on.com, gnu-win32@cygnus.com Subject: Re: tail -f locks Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 18:32:00 -0000 Message-ID: <19990427202848.14090.rocketmail@web105.yahoomail.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-04n/msg00456.html Message-ID: <19990430183200.7u-bZYQu8uJ9aMd9SsT3zOzf8vt6VIBLRTAoeFRDLSE@z> --- thomas@on.com wrote: > This has not been the original intention of 'tail -f': This command should > enable the user > to watch the contents of a file grow. If this file is locked by the tail > command, the writing process > will run on error. Interesting. Are you mixing cygwin and non-cygwin processes? I have a mingw32 version of tail that works as expected. === "Earnie Boyd" < mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com > CYGWIN RELATED HELP: DOCUMENTATION: < http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/docs.html > DLLHELP: < http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ > ARCHIVE SEARCH: < http://www.delorie.com/archives/ > OR < http://www.eGroups.com/list/gnu-win32/ > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com