Re: Need to block on file eof read

From: Maurizio Loreti (mlo_at_foobar.it)
Date: 12/29/04 

Date: 29 Dec 2004 14:38:55 +0100

Heiko <heiko.noordhof_A_xs4all.nl> writes:

> I think the point here is that 'tail' is written in C...

Are you asserting that this is required by POSIX? Are you asserting
that a 'tail' implementation *must* be written in C --- and not C++,
FORTRAN or awk or any other language? 

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Maurizio Loreti                         http://www.pd.infn.it/~loreti/mlo.html
Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Padova, Italy              ROT13: ybergv@cq.vasa.vg

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