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--- Comment #6 from Lars Müller <lars@???> 2011-03-01 22:37:43 ---
At the moment calling -1 doesn't cause an issue if you operate on one file
only.
I had a conversation with Ruediger Oertel <ro@???> who made this change and
asked for the motivation.
He explained to me that this was a general change they applied to all SUSE
Linux based products. The motivation had been:
a) tail -1 only works with one file (this doesn't matter in the actual exim use
case)
b) He feared the -1 might vanish with a more recent coreutils version. This
would have caused many binary builds to fail. Therefore all sources in use got
checked and adjusted.
Speaking for version 8.9 of coreutils calling "tail -N" still works but the
usage isn't longer documented in the man and info pages.
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