Received: from pch.mit.edu (PCH.MIT.EDU [18.7.21.90]) by krbdev.mit.edu (8.9.3p2) with ESMTP id LAA20707; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:00:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from pch.mit.edu (pch.mit.edu [127.0.0.1]) by pch.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.8) with ESMTP id l1QG0OcJ008242; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:00:24 -0500 Received: from biscayne-one-station.mit.edu (BISCAYNE-ONE-STATION.MIT.EDU [18.7.7.80]) by pch.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.8) with ESMTP id l1P3DH2R028152 for ; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 22:13:17 -0500 Received: from outgoing.mit.edu (OUTGOING-AUTH.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.103]) by biscayne-one-station.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.9.2) with ESMTP id l1P3DEti013059; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 22:13:14 -0500 (EST) Received: from [10.0.0.101] (c-24-63-185-121.hsd1.ma.comcast.net [24.63.185.121]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as ghudson@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id l1P3DDKB019729 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NOT); Sat, 24 Feb 2007 22:13:13 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: tail portability bug in k5srvutil From: Greg Hudson To: Robert A Basch In-Reply-To: <200702242312.l1ONCexe009566@abulia.mit.edu> References: <200702242312.l1ONCexe009566@abulia.mit.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 22:13:35 -0500 Message-Id: <1172373215.3706.140.camel@error-messages.mit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-BY: MIMEDefang 2.42 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.00 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:00:23 -0500 Cc: source-reviewers@MIT.EDU, krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU X-Beenthere: krb5-bugs-incoming@mailman.mit.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.6 Precedence: list Sender: krb5-bugs-incoming-bounces@PCH.mit.edu Errors-To: krb5-bugs-incoming-bounces@PCH.mit.edu X-RT-Original-Encoding: iso-8859-1 Content-Length: 254 Yay. The FSF upstream maintainers have an odd desire to deprecate tail +n, and every so often a distribution version falls prey to it. My guess is that Red Hat will fix it if someone reports it as a bug, but we can also work around it easily enough.