-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Matthew Woehlke on 9/29/2008 2:01 PM: > Michael Williamson wrote: >> I do not have a bug to report. I have a question. >> >> Where is the source code for the program "tail". >> I cannot find a "tail.c" on Fedora or openSuSE. > > You want the SRPM for "coreutils". There is a tail.c in src/ (at least > in 6.9, but I doubt it's been moved).
To follow up on this, the GPL guarantees that you have the right to ask whoever provided you with the binary to also give you the source, but still leaves distributors the option of making it a separate download (not everyone wants to see the source). So it is perfectly acceptable for your machine to have no occurrence of tail.c if you have not followed the steps to get the source code from the provider of the binary. > > You could also download the upstream source from > http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/. In particular, http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=history;f=src/tail.c;h=43fd6d41;hb=0482f19 - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkjhjiUACgkQ84KuGfSFAYDjMwCgkfHk2sI8LSN9rBIpNwjgldjj jacAoKhz9Z8hKFvGfgTmAvf4IgerGKII =4bq9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
