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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2015-02-05 13:59:12 +0000 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2015-02-06 10:42:11 +0000 |
| commit | 0f7ca66bc5d467c50c3df341f7f18bef689f8247 (patch) | |
| tree | d2a8a021e80ee09b3a67e4ccddf0ac9432fe9fc5 /src/tail.c | |
| parent | 235d52c3eaf2c8f6dd6eadb45ac458e71d3afc75 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-0f7ca66bc5d467c50c3df341f7f18bef689f8247.tar.xz | |
maint: document a caveat in the tail inotify implementation
* src/tail.c (main): Document another caveat with the
inotify implementation wrt multiple hardlinked files.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/tail.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/tail.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/tail.c b/src/tail.c index 5fdb956c6..c5380cbe8 100644 --- a/src/tail.c +++ b/src/tail.c @@ -2265,7 +2265,11 @@ main (int argc, char **argv) FIXME: when using inotify, and a directory for a watched file is recreated, then we don't recheck any new file when - follow_mode == Follow_name */ + follow_mode == Follow_name. + + FIXME-maybe: inotify has a watch descriptor per inode, and hence with + our current hash implementation will only --follow data for one + of the names when multiple hardlinked files are specified. */ if (!disable_inotify && (tailable_stdin (F, n_files) || any_remote_file (F, n_files) || any_symlinks (F, n_files) |