only if standard input is a FIFO or pipe and POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.
+2006-07-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+ * NEWS: With no operand, 'tail -f' now silently ignores the '-f'
+ only if standard input is a FIFO or pipe and POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.
+ * src/tail.c (main): Implement this.
+ * tests/tail/Test.pm (f-pipe-1): Renamed from f-1.
+ (test_vector): Set POSIXLY_CORRECT for the f-pipe-* tests.
+
2006-07-01 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* src/ln.c (do_link): Use new, shorter URL, for ag-review link.
two hex digits), and the standard sequences (\a, \b, \f, \n, \r, \t,
\v, \", \\).
+ With no operand, 'tail -f' now silently ignores the '-f' only if
+ standard input is a FIFO or pipe and POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.
+ Formerly, it ignored the '-f' when standard input was a FIFO, pipe,
+ or socket.
+
** Scheduled for removal
ptx's --copyright (-C) option is scheduled for removal in 2007, and
+2006-07-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+ * coreutils.texi (tail invocation): With no operand, 'tail -f' now
+ silently ignores the '-f' only if standard input is a FIFO or pipe
+ and POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.
+
2006-06-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (seq invocation): seq now uses long double