tail -f <file name> locks <file name>

[Earnie Boyd]

--- thomas@on.com wrote:
> This has not been the original intention of 'tail -f': This command should
> enable the user
> to watch the contents of a file grow. If this file is locked by the tail
> command, the writing process
> will run on error.

Interesting.  Are you mixing cygwin and non-cygwin processes?  I have a mingw32
version of tail that works as expected.

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