From f802a544e7a2b3cdf002c7c8a3625fbeacd48be3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sin <sin@2f30.org>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 15:52:31 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] tail: Handle tail -n -val properly

---
 tail.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tail.c b/tail.c
index e244930..9f5bd4f 100644
--- a/tail.c
+++ b/tail.c
@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 		break;
 	case 'n':
 		lines = EARGF(usage());
-		n = estrtonum(lines, 0, MIN(LLONG_MAX, SIZE_MAX));
+		n = estrtonum(lines[0] == '-' ? lines + 1 : lines,
+		              0, MIN(LLONG_MAX, SIZE_MAX));
 		if (lines[0] == '+')
 			tail = dropinit;
 		break;