From 2dad87f6415ec68564e934ace33496db1abc68c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 21:52:05 +0200 Subject: tail,stat: improve support for vmhgfs Teach tail -f that it must use polling on vmhgfs file systems, and let stat -f --format=%T report the file system type name, "vmhgfs". * src/stat.c (human_fstype): Add a case: vmhgfs, 0xbacbacbc, remote. * NEWS (Improvements): Mention it. * THANKS.in: Update. Reported by Daniel Tschinder in http://bugs.gnu.org/12461. --- NEWS | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 59a851010..9bd5d58aa 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -49,10 +49,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- but only with non-negative whole numbers, an increment of 1, and no format-changing options. - stat and tail work better with ZFS and VZFS. stat -f --format=%T now - reports the file system type, and tail -f now uses inotify for files - on those file systems, rather than the default (for unknown file system - types) of issuing a warning and reverting to polling. + stat and tail know about ZFS, VZFS and VMHGFS. stat -f --format=%T now + reports the file system type, and tail -f now uses inotify for files on + ZFS and VZFS file systems, rather than the default (for unknown file + system types) of issuing a warning and reverting to polling. tail -f + still uses polling for files on VMHGFS file systems. ** Build-related -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf