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| author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2011-01-24 09:37:10 +0100 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2011-01-24 10:02:19 +0100 |
| commit | 8264fc615a1beb82e062949e5cf17c852fcfaaaf (patch) | |
| tree | 248652756c10e04341753077828b39640acf48fe | |
| parent | 4afbba7bac2c292e982978a0744f153375c1e18e (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-8264fc615a1beb82e062949e5cf17c852fcfaaaf.tar.xz | |
tail: avoid new diagnostic when applying -f to a pipe on linux-2.3.38
* src/tail.c (fremote): Do not print a diagnostic when
fstatfs (pipe_FD, &buf) fails, as it now does on linux-2.3.38.
This avoids the spurious failure of tests/misc/tail's f-pipe-1
test, when running in input-from-pipe mode.
| -rw-r--r-- | src/tail.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/tail.c b/src/tail.c index 9682a537c..bcd2d9970 100644 --- a/src/tail.c +++ b/src/tail.c @@ -887,8 +887,11 @@ fremote (int fd, const char *name) int err = fstatfs (fd, &buf); if (err != 0) { - error (0, errno, _("cannot determine location of %s. " - "reverting to polling"), quote (name)); + /* On at least linux-2.6.38, fstatfs fails with ENOSYS when FD + is open on a pipe. Treat that like a remote file. */ + if (errno != ENOSYS) + error (0, errno, _("cannot determine location of %s. " + "reverting to polling"), quote (name)); } else { |