Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
--- /dev/null
+diff -urpN busybox-1.16.0/coreutils/tail.c busybox-1.16.0-tail/coreutils/tail.c
+--- busybox-1.16.0/coreutils/tail.c 2010-03-08 22:49:32.000000000 +0100
++++ busybox-1.16.0-tail/coreutils/tail.c 2010-03-12 22:16:07.105943986 +0100
+@@ -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;