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Each user has a maximum number of inotify watches,
so handle the cases where we exhaust these resources.
* src/tail.c (tail_forever_inotify): Ensure we inotify_rm_watch()
the watch for an inode, when replacing with a new watch for a name.
Return all used inotify resources when reverting to polling.
Revert to polling upon first indication of inotify resource exhaustion.
Revert to polling on any inotify resource exhaustion.
Diagnose resource exhaustion correctly in all cases.
Avoid redundant reinsertion in the hash for unchanged watches
(where only attributes of the file are changed).
* tests/tail-2/retry.sh: Avoid false failure when reverting to polling.
* tests/tail-2/inotify-rotate.sh: Likewise.
* tests/tail-2/symlink.sh: Likewise.
* tests/tail-2/inotify-rotate-resources.sh: New test to check
that we're calling inotify_rm_watch() for replaced files.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
* NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
* THANKS.in: Thanks for reporting and problem identification.
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Run "make update-copyright" and then...
* tests/sample-test: Adjust to use the single most recent year.
* tests/du/bind-mount-dir-cycle-v2.sh: Fix case in copyright message,
so that year is updated automatically in future.
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On most shells `:>file || framework_failure_` will not evaluate
the framework_failure_ even if there was an error writing the file.
shells which do evaluate the failure are ksh 93u+ and bash 4.2,
while shells wich don't include bash 4.3, solaris, freebsd, dash.
Furthermore this construct is problematic on Solaris 10 sh,
which will try to optimize away a `:' command in a loop
after the first iteration, even if it is redirected.
* tests/cp/link-deref.sh: Remove the leading colon on redirections.
* tests/cp/reflink-perm.sh: Likewise.
* tests/id/zero.sh: Likewise.
* tests/install/install-C.sh: Likewise.
* tests/misc/env.sh: Likewise.
* tests/misc/md5sum-bsd.sh: Likewise.
* tests/misc/runcon-no-reorder.sh: Likewise.
* tests/mv/partition-perm.sh: Likewise.
* tests/rm/r-root.sh: Likewise.
* tests/split/l-chunk.sh: Likewise.
* tests/split/line-bytes.sh: Likewise.
* tests/tail-2/inotify-rotate.sh: Likewise.
* tests/tail-2/retry.sh: Likewise.
* tests/tail-2/symlink.sh: Likewise.
* tests/tail-2/wait.sh: Likewise.
* tests/touch/read-only.sh: Likewise.
+ cfg.mk (sc_prohibit_colon_redirection): A new syntax check
to avoid further instances of this creeping in.
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Run "make update-copyright", but then also run this,
perl -pi -e 's/2\d\d\d-//' tests/sample-test
to make that one script use the single most recent year number.
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* src/tail.c: With inotify, when a file is initially absent,
we fstat(-1) for that file spec, thus recording an errnum of EBADF,
which caused the "has become accessible" diagnostic to be issued,
when the file first appears. Instead we avoid the fstat(-1) and
thus emit the more natural and consistent "has appeared" diagnostic.
* tests/tail-2/retry.sh: Use the new diagnostic which also causes
this test to pass on systems without inotify.
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Some newer test scripts - partially ones from me - are not executable.
It does not seem to be a problem, but for consistency and to avoid
future problems on unusual platforms or shells change the permissions
by adding the executable bit.
* cfg.mk (sc_tests_executable): Add new syntax-check rule to ensure
that all test scripts are executable.
* tests/df/df-output.sh: Change file mode from 644 to 755.
* tests/du/threshold.sh: Likewise.
* tests/factor/run.sh: Likewise.
* tests/init.sh: Likewise.
* tests/misc/csplit-suppress-matched.pl: Likewise.
* tests/misc/numfmt.pl: Likewise.
* tests/tail-2/retry.sh: Likewise.
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Prompted by the continuous integration build failure at:
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/5221053
* tests/tail-2/retry.sh: Ensure the 'out' file is truncated,
as it's used to arbitrate the run order of commands.
Relying on the truncation in the background tail command
is racy because the truncation can occur after the fork
of the background shell and thus wait4lines would not wait
for output to occur in 'out', which would mean that the
'missing' file could be populated by the time tail(1)
gets to process it.
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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.
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The --retry option is indeed useful for both following modes
by name and by file descriptor. The difference is that in the
latter case, it is effective only during the initial open.
As a regression of the implementation of the inotify support,
tail -f --retry would immediately exit if the given file is
inaccessible.
* src/tail.c (usage): Change the description of the --retry option:
remove the note that this option would mainly be useful when
following by name.
(main): Change diagnosing dubios uses of --retry option:
when the --retry option is used without following, then issue
a warning that this option is ignored; when it is used together
with --follow=descriptor, then issue a warning that it is only
effective for the initial open.
Disable inotify also in the case when the initial open in tail_file()
failed (which is the actual bug fix).
* init.cfg (retry_delay_): Pass excess arguments to the test function.
* tests/tail-2/retry.sh: Add new tests.
* tests/local.mk (all_tests): Mention it.
* doc/coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Enhance the documentation
of the --retry option. Clarify the difference in tail's behavior
regarding the --retry option when combined with the following modes
name versus descriptor.
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention the fix.
Reported by Noel Morrison in:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2013-04/msg00003.html
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