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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2009-12-30 11:16:23 +0100
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2009-12-30 11:22:55 +0100
commitd3a4bc86cd989ad7262545ae7e49868a2d1b59d4 (patch)
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parentfe062d563a09481162f5c11b154d047331708b7f (diff)
downloadcoreutils-d3a4bc86cd989ad7262545ae7e49868a2d1b59d4.tar.xz
doc: mention two tail -F bug fixes in NEWS
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Two tail -F fixes.
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@@ -18,6 +18,15 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
files that was not done from the local system would go unnoticed.
[bug introduced in coreutils-7.5]
+ tail -F (inotify-enabled) would abort when a tailed file is repeated
+ renamed-aside and then recreated.
+ [bug introduced in coreutils-7.5]
+
+ tail -F (inotify-enabled) could fail to follow renamed files.
+ E.g., given a "tail -F a b" process, running "mv a b" would
+ make tail stop tracking additions to "b".
+ [bug introduced in coreutils-7.5]
+
touch -a once again guarantees that a file's change time is
adjusted, working around a bug in current Linux kernels.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.1]