From 734bf58f78e33bb1c2866f2dde2a43284dbfb125 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridharr@activestate.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 14:46:18 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] should be Fatal here

---
 tail_test.go | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tail_test.go b/tail_test.go
index ab3bfbe..a955f4d 100644
--- a/tail_test.go
+++ b/tail_test.go
@@ -393,9 +393,10 @@ func (t TailTest) VerifyTailOutput(tail *Tail, lines []string) {
 	for idx, line := range lines {
 		tailedLine, ok := <-tail.Lines
 		if !ok {
+			// tail.Lines is closed and empty.
 			err := tail.Err()
 			if err != nil {
-				t.Errorf("tail ended with error: %v", err)
+				t.Fatalf("tail ended with error: %v", err)
 			}
 			t.Fatalf("tail ended early; expecting more: %v", lines[idx:])
 		}