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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2013-09-13 17:31:24 +0200 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2013-11-27 01:40:08 +0000 |
| commit | ba6582e95ce2a041423e1ff34c93abe7b4702332 (patch) | |
| tree | b9d30c8ff7fc2a00e80b12c5b7f15f318ec02b98 /bootstrap | |
| parent | 799e10f3619ea7949a4f606b2f29b662daf31e3c (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-ba6582e95ce2a041423e1ff34c93abe7b4702332.tar.xz | |
tail: improve inotify handling of symlinks
Previous behavior failed to read contents of a (re)appearing file,
when symlinked by tail's watched file. Also we now diagnose other
edge cases when running in inotify mode, where an initially
missing or regular file changes to a symlink.
* src/tail.c (main): If any arg is a symlink, use polling mode.
(recheck): Diagnose the edge case where a symlink appears during
inotify processing.
* tests/tail-2/symlink.sh: Test the fix. Mention the edge cases.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
Reported by: Ondrej Oprala
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