[systemd-devel] [PATCH] journalctl: respect --after-cursor semantics with --follow in all cases

[Wesley Dawson]

In the case where no entries have been added to the journal after the specified
cursor, set need_seek before the main loop to prevent display of the entry at
said cursor.
---
 src/journal/journalctl.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/journal/journalctl.c b/src/journal/journalctl.c
index 5c2a56d..3cec9a0 100644
--- a/src/journal/journalctl.c
+++ b/src/journal/journalctl.c
@@ -1934,9 +1934,13 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
                 else
                         r = sd_journal_previous_skip(j, 1 + !!arg_after_cursor);
 
-                if (arg_after_cursor && r < 2 && !arg_follow)
+                if (arg_after_cursor && r < 2) {
                         /* We couldn't find the next entry after the cursor. */
-                        arg_lines = 0;
+                        if (arg_follow)
+                                need_seek = true;
+                        else
+                                arg_lines = 0;
+                }
 
         } else if (arg_since_set && !arg_reverse) {
                 r = sd_journal_seek_realtime_usec(j, arg_since);
-- 
1.9.3