From 83a5cd9522b6713de85d2c859d090de23f8e60d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dragutreis <235304016+dragutreis@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 24 May 2026 06:10:26 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] tail: avoid unnecessary pipe2 syscall when stdout is already
 a pipe

Use splice_unbounded_auto instead of splice_unbounded_broker to avoid
creating a broker pipe when stdout is already a pipe (e.g., when piping
to another command with |).
---
 src/uu/tail/src/tail.rs | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/uu/tail/src/tail.rs b/src/uu/tail/src/tail.rs
index f579c6a11..a9307d4cd 100644
--- a/src/uu/tail/src/tail.rs
+++ b/src/uu/tail/src/tail.rs
@@ -596,7 +596,7 @@ fn print_target_section<
         }
     } else {
         #[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "android"))]
-        if uucore::pipes::splice_unbounded_broker(file, &mut stdout)?.is_err() {
+        if uucore::pipes::splice_unbounded_auto(file, &mut stdout)? {
             io::copy(file, &mut stdout)?;
         }
         #[cfg(not(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "android")))]