Re: [PATCH] tail should dereference watched file (original) (raw)

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From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tail should dereference watched file
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 10:24:29 -0700
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On 11/21/2013 10:01 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:

@@ -43,8 +43,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- by the alignment bug introduced in coreutils-6.0]

tail --retry -f now waits for the files specified to appear. Before, tail - would immediately exit when such a file is inaccessible during the initial - open. + would immediately exit when such a file is initially inaccessible. + [This bug was introduced when inotify support was added in coreutils-7.5] + + tail -F had improved handling of symlinks. Previously tail didn't respond

s/had/has/

-- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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