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author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2009-11-15 09:25:29 +0100 |
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committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2009-11-16 09:30:43 +0100 |
commit | 3b997a9bcb05198c880e5d1605a3c96c1d7f9c5d (patch) | |
tree | 99d9c5b1943e2339986e78e8bfac2c6f506aa424 /THANKS | |
parent | 00f0cabaecdd490529d05230435671eb89a7b5c5 (diff) | |
download | coreutils-3b997a9bcb05198c880e5d1605a3c96c1d7f9c5d.tar.xz |
tail -F can fail to track a file after it's been rotated
Tailing forever and by-name (--follow=name, -F), tail would
sometimes fail to follow a file that had been removed via rename.
If you can't apply this patch and have tail 7.6 or newer, you can
work around the bug via the undocumented --disable-inotify option.
* src/tail.c (tail_forever_inotify): When tailing by name (-F),
do not un-watch a file upon receipt of the IN_MOVE_SELF event.
Reported by Arjan Opmeer in http://bugs.debian.org/548439.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
Also see http://marc.info/?l=coreutils-bug&m=125829031916515
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add tail-2/inotify-rotate.
* tests/tail-2/inotify-rotate: New test.
Diffstat (limited to 'THANKS')
-rw-r--r-- | THANKS | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ Andy Longton alongton@metamark.com Anthony Thyssen anthony@griffith.edu.au Antonio Rendas ajrendas@yahoo.com Ariel Faigon ariel@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com +Arjan Opmeer arjan.opmeer@gmail.com Arne H. Juul arnej@solan.unit.no Arne Henrik Juul arnej@imf.unit.no Arnold Robbins arnold@skeeve.com @@ -401,7 +402,7 @@ Max Chang maxchang@ucla.edu Meelis Roos mroos@tartu.cyber.ee Michael michael@aplatform.com Michael ??? michael@roka.net -Michael Bacarella mbac@netgraft.com> +Michael Bacarella mbac@netgraft.com Michael Deutschmann michael@talamasca.ocis.net Michael Elizabeth Chastain mec.gnu@mindspring.com Michael Gaughen mgaughen@polyserve.com |