The following reply was made to PR bin/30470; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/30470: tail -40 -f ignore -40 option
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 11:11:17 +0100

 On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 09:50:01PM +0000, bad@atsec.com wrote:
 > >Number:         30470
 > >Category:       bin
 > >Synopsis:       tail -40 -f ignore -40 option
 
 > tail -40 -f displays only the last 20 lines before following the file even
 > if the file has more than 20 lines.
 > This used to work in e.g. 1.5.3.
 > 	
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > yes lame | sed 41q >/tmp/zorch; tail -40 -f /tmp/zorch
 
 I can't find any systems on which this is broken.
 Nor any changes to the source of tail that could plausibly be relevant.
 
 	David
 
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 David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk