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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2009-08-12 19:01:56 +0100 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2009-08-13 16:09:27 +0100 |
| commit | f43f02865253e1cca210cc588269f5acf755259f (patch) | |
| tree | 3daac617ab4bd074054442bbbdd3a9dad79d4dbc /src | |
| parent | e4caea57759495847dc52f7a7d062500dd711a96 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-f43f02865253e1cca210cc588269f5acf755259f.tar.xz | |
tail: fix tail -f failure when inotify used
* src/tail.c (tail_forever_inotify): Remove the redundant and
incorrect error check of the return from inotify_add_watch().
Also initialize the wd member of each File_spec to an invalid value.
Reported by C de-Avillez.
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/tail.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/tail.c b/src/tail.c index 3c8f425ca..6f8370625 100644 --- a/src/tail.c +++ b/src/tail.c @@ -1193,7 +1193,7 @@ tail_forever_inotify (int wd, struct File_spec *f, size_t n_files, if (evlen < fnlen) evlen = fnlen; - f[i].wd = 0; + f[i].wd = -1; if (follow_mode == Follow_name) { @@ -1231,8 +1231,7 @@ tail_forever_inotify (int wd, struct File_spec *f, size_t n_files, if (hash_insert (wd_table, &(f[i])) == NULL) xalloc_die (); - if (follow_mode == Follow_name || f[i].wd) - found_watchable = true; + found_watchable = true; } } |