:: The real issue is why should a command raise an error for no good
:: reason.  Either a kernel panic or a message is a bit extreme just
:: because a user issued a command that someone else thinks is
:: unusual. Until you can prove that there is no use for the output of
:: tail on a directory, adding code to tail to generate an error in that
:: case is silly.

If you are a typist with 100% accuracy, there is of course no need for any
error handling in any program.

Is there any use for the the garbage tail outputs on a directory? If there
is, I won't say anything else...

-- Juha


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