From dbff2508b85baf12d5e2eee4134eb17be69fdca9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pádraig Brady Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 13:22:42 +0000 Subject: tail: disable inotify with only non existent files tests/tail-2/F-headers.sh and test/tail-2/retry.sh fail on on remote file systems due to tail going into inotify mode due to not being able to determine the remoteness of the non existent files. * src/tail.c (any_non_remote_file): A new function used to disable inotify when there are no open files, as we can't determine remoteness in that case. * NEWS: Mention the bug fix. --- NEWS | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 45ee103a9..5983ead19 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- that specify an offset for the first field. [bug introduced with the --debug feature in coreutils-8.6] + tail -F now works with initially non existent files on a remote file system. + [bug introduced in coreutils-7.5] + ** New commands base32 is added to complement the existing base64 command, -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf