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| author | Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@gmail.com> | 2015-02-03 21:22:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2015-03-31 11:55:32 +0100 |
| commit | d313a0b24234d3366ec263111469f219f5b4634f (patch) | |
| tree | 60f0b5c02f43a38060ee21933c06aae4d2361d74 /NEWS | |
| parent | 52209ee547476aba6827848705cfa15484df78bd (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-d313a0b24234d3366ec263111469f219f5b4634f.tar.xz | |
tail: fix -f to follow changes after a rename
* src/tail.c (tail_forever_inotify): Only monitor write()s and
truncate()s to files in --follow=descriptor mode, thus avoiding
the bug where we removed the watch on renamed files.
Also adjust the inotify event processing code that is
now significant only in --follow=name mode.
* tests/tail-2/F-vs-rename.sh: Improve this existing test by running
in both polling and inotify modes.
* tests/tail-2/f-vs-rename.sh: A new test based on the existing one.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
* NEWS: Mention the bug.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/19760
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- resources with many files, or with -F if files were replaced many times. [bug introduced in coreutils-7.5] + tail -f again follows changes to a file after it's renamed. + [bug introduced in coreutils-7.5] + ** New features chroot accepts the new --skip-chdir option to not change the working directory |