Nick Hudson wrote:

> I'm getting a strange core dump from tail
> 
> [ ... ]

I see a core dump from tail when I try to tail a large (in this
case 12MB) file that's on a nullfs mount.  I can tail a file on
the underlying filesystem fine.  Are you using nullfs mounts?

Simon.
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