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-rw-r--r--coreutils/tail.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/coreutils/tail.c b/coreutils/tail.c
index 83768d420..8fc22f562 100644
--- a/coreutils/tail.c
+++ b/coreutils/tail.c
@@ -241,7 +241,8 @@ int tail_main(int argc, char **argv)
} while (nwrite);
}
}
- xwrite(STDOUT_FILENO, buf + nread - nwrite, nwrite);
+ if (nwrite > 0)
+ xwrite(STDOUT_FILENO, buf + nread - nwrite, nwrite);
} else if (count) {
if (COUNT_BYTES) {
taillen += nread;