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From: Ruediger Meier <sweet_f_a@gmx.de>
To: Tobias Stoeckmann <tobias@stoeckmann.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix segmentation fault in tailf on 32 bit
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 11:49:37 +0200
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On Sunday 10 July 2016, Tobias Stoeckmann wrote:
> tailf crashes with a segmentation fault when used with a file that is
> exactly 4GB in size due to an integer overflow between off_t and
> size_t:

Note that tailf is deprecated and will be removed in a few months. It's 
better to use tail -f (from coreutils),

cu,
Rudi