bug#29259: tail does not seek to the end of block device

[Jim Meyering]

Why doesn't lseek work for this?

Good call, it probably would.
Something like the following is more acceptable

Full patch attached with tests.

Nice work. I found nothing to improve.

[Assaf Gordon]

tags 29259 fixed
close 29259
stop

(triaging old bugs)

Pushed here:

tail: seek to the end of block devices
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=31dd7a0de272affa1120ba1fbc7db3445c548aa5

so closing as "fixed".

-assaf