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| -rw-r--r-- | src/tail.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/src/tail.c b/src/tail.c index 193e4fd7d..5c75be08d 100644 --- a/src/tail.c +++ b/src/tail.c @@ -878,9 +878,7 @@ start_lines (const char *pretty_filename, int fd, uintmax_t n_lines, } } -#if HAVE_INOTIFY -/* Without inotify support, always return false. Otherwise, return false - when FD is open on a file known to reside on a local file system. +/* Return false when FD is open on a file residing on a local file system. If fstatfs fails, give a diagnostic and return true. If fstatfs cannot be called, return true. */ static bool @@ -888,7 +886,7 @@ fremote (int fd, const char *name) { bool remote = true; /* be conservative (poll by default). */ -# if HAVE_FSTATFS && HAVE_STRUCT_STATFS_F_TYPE && defined __linux__ +#if HAVE_FSTATFS && HAVE_STRUCT_STATFS_F_TYPE && defined __linux__ struct statfs buf; int err = fstatfs (fd, &buf); if (err != 0) @@ -917,15 +915,10 @@ fremote (int fd, const char *name) assert (!"unexpected return value from is_local_fs_type"); } } -# endif +#endif return remote; } -#else -/* Without inotify support, whether a file is remote is irrelevant. - Always return "false" in that case. */ -# define fremote(fd, name) false -#endif /* open/fstat F->name and handle changes. */ static void @@ -995,7 +988,7 @@ recheck (struct File_spec *f, bool blocking) quoteaf (pretty_name (f)), f->ignore ? _("; giving up on this name") : ""); } - else if (!disable_inotify && fremote (fd, pretty_name (f))) + else if ((f->remote = fremote (fd, pretty_name (f))) && ! disable_inotify) { ok = false; f->errnum = -1; |