From e6e7b3cddd35aac138869d54d4e724c46361d21c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tjr <tjr@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 11:26:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] When doing tail -F, return if the freopen() of the file fails
 instead of trying to use a null file pointer.

---
 usr.bin/tail/forward.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/usr.bin/tail/forward.c b/usr.bin/tail/forward.c
index 0f35fbd47ed..25facec287f 100644
--- a/usr.bin/tail/forward.c
+++ b/usr.bin/tail/forward.c
@@ -258,6 +258,7 @@ forward(fp, style, off, sbp)
 				fp = freopen(fname, "r", fp);
 				if (fp == NULL) {
 					ierr();
+					return;
 				} else {
 					*sbp = sb2;
 					action = ADD_EVENTS;
-- 
2.45.0