> tail -f on logfiles is coredumping.
> (The problem seems to be related to tail's tendency to read the file
> via mmap().)

Is this over NFS?  I do this all the time on my mac68k box with all
local filesystems and have never seen tail -f dump or fail at all.

The way I usually build the world is to nohup and background the
make, then tail -f the log file sometimes from multiple terminals
at once...

-allen

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