Does tail still need the 4K byte limit?

Guy Harris guy at auspex.auspex.com
Thu May 4 15:53:41 AEST 1989


>from "trace tail -3 /etc/hosts" on sun os 4.0.1:
>
>Looks like it picks the last 32k ...

Credit where credit is due; this comes from 4.3BSD.  The limit there is
a fixed 32K....



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