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| author | Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de> | 2013-04-20 16:33:06 +0200 |
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| committer | Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de> | 2013-04-20 16:33:06 +0200 |
| commit | d461bfd2743547360793acd2118d4c08ad7b84a8 (patch) | |
| tree | 6e81dc004be45e9dea0c7b469b7d98c9f0277950 /NEWS | |
| parent | 1dd8a33169b69716c4a4b92dbe1bd99336d92b23 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-d461bfd2743547360793acd2118d4c08ad7b84a8.tar.xz | |
tail: let -f --retry wait for inaccessible files
The --retry option is indeed useful for both following modes
by name and by file descriptor. The difference is that in the
latter case, it is effective only during the initial open.
As a regression of the implementation of the inotify support,
tail -f --retry would immediately exit if the given file is
inaccessible.
* src/tail.c (usage): Change the description of the --retry option:
remove the note that this option would mainly be useful when
following by name.
(main): Change diagnosing dubios uses of --retry option:
when the --retry option is used without following, then issue
a warning that this option is ignored; when it is used together
with --follow=descriptor, then issue a warning that it is only
effective for the initial open.
Disable inotify also in the case when the initial open in tail_file()
failed (which is the actual bug fix).
* init.cfg (retry_delay_): Pass excess arguments to the test function.
* tests/tail-2/retry.sh: Add new tests.
* tests/local.mk (all_tests): Mention it.
* doc/coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Enhance the documentation
of the --retry option. Clarify the difference in tail's behavior
regarding the --retry option when combined with the following modes
name versus descriptor.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention the fix.
Reported by Noel Morrison in:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2013-04/msg00003.html
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -13,6 +13,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- the relative link on the dereferenced path of an existing link. [This bug was introduced when --relative was added in coreutils-8.16.] + tail --retry -f now waits for the files specified to appear. Before, tail + would immediately exit when such a file is inaccessible during the initial + open. + [This bug was introduced when inotify support was added in coreutils-7.5] + ** New features join accepts a new option: --zero-terminated (-z). As with the sort,uniq |