tail: exit following by descriptor when no tailable file left

As a side effect of the previous commit which fixes 'tail -f --retry'
to wait for a file to appear, tail would not exit when the last file
appears untailable and gives up on this file.
This can happen, for example, when the argument file name appears
as directory.  Tail sets the 'ignore' flag of this file to true,
but instead of exiting the program, tail would continue the loop.

* src/tail.c (any_live_files): Change the function to return true
if any of the files is still tailable or if tail should continue to
try to check again.
(tail_forever): Change the condition to break the loop in the
"no files remaining" case, because now any_live_files() will care
about it, as mentioned above.
(parse_options): When --retry is used without any follow mode,
then reset reopen_inaccessible_files to false.
* tests/tail-2/retry.sh: Add test case.

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/src/tail.c b/src/tail.c
index 373575705..6bbc7251f 100644
--- a/src/tail.c
+++ b/src/tail.c
@@ -1052,16 +1052,32 @@ recheck (struct File_spec *f, bool blocking)
 }
 
 /* Return true if any of the N_FILES files in F are live, i.e., have
-   open file descriptors.  */
+   open file descriptors, or should be checked again (see --retry).
+   When following descriptors, checking should only continue when any
+   of the files is not yet ignored.  */
 
 static bool
 any_live_files (const struct File_spec *f, size_t n_files)
 {
   size_t i;
 
+  if (reopen_inaccessible_files && follow_mode == Follow_name)
+    return true;  /* continue following for -F option */
+
   for (i = 0; i < n_files; i++)
-    if (0 <= f[i].fd)
-      return true;
+    {
+      if (0 <= f[i].fd)
+        {
+          return true;
+        }
+      else
+        {
+          if (reopen_inaccessible_files && follow_mode == Follow_descriptor)
+            if (! f[i].ignore)
+              return true;
+        }
+    }
+
   return false;
 }
 
@@ -1189,7 +1205,7 @@ tail_forever (struct File_spec *f, size_t n_files, double sleep_interval)
           f[i].size += bytes_read;
         }
 
-      if (! any_live_files (f, n_files) && ! reopen_inaccessible_files)
+      if (! any_live_files (f, n_files))
         {
           error (0, 0, _("no files remaining"));
           break;
@@ -2031,8 +2047,11 @@ parse_options (int argc, char **argv,
   if (reopen_inaccessible_files)
     {
       if (!forever)
-        error (0, 0, _("warning: --retry ignored; --retry is useful"
-                       " only when following"));
+        {
+          reopen_inaccessible_files = false;
+          error (0, 0, _("warning: --retry ignored; --retry is useful"
+                         " only when following"));
+        }
       else if (follow_mode == Follow_descriptor)
         error (0, 0, _("warning: --retry only effective for the initial open"));
     }