tail -f stops working

[Carl S. Gutekunst]

In article <1290 at esquire.UUCP> sullivan at esquire.UUCP (David J. Sullivan) writes:
>I've noticed something that is quite vexing and a bit confusing:
>tail -f's on files that don't change often can stop working.

Actually, it can happen even when the file *does* change. The bug is in the

	sleep(1);

call, which occasionally doesn't wake up. (I ran the test for days on my 9840
before it happened -- but it definitely *does* happen.)

This should be reported to pyramid!bugs.

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