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tail -f file SIGABRT if file size increased 1PB

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Description

$ truncate -s 1M /tmp/huge
$ gnu9.11/tail -f /tmp/huge|pv>/dev/null
different term $ truncate -s 1PB /tmp/huge
^C.3GiB 0:00:12 [2.17GiB/s]

But with uutils,

$ truncate -s 1M /tmp/huge
$ tail -f /tmp/huge|pv>/dev/null
1.00MiB 0:00:03 [ 293KiB/s]
different term $ truncate -s 1PB /tmp/huge
fish: Process 2052, 'tail' from job 1, 'tail -f /tmp/huge|pv>/dev/null' terminated by signal SIGKILL (Forced quit)

It potentially crashes log monitoring scripts.

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Research direction

Reproduce the failure by running tail -f on a file and expanding it from 1M to 1PB with truncate. Trace the tail implementation and its file-size growth handling, then verify that monitoring continues without termination after the size increase.

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Tech stack
rust
Domain
cli
Issue type
Bug
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Estimated time
1-2 days
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Newbie friendliness
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