bug#21460: Race condition in tests/tail-2/assert.sh

[Pádraig Brady]

On 12/09/15 03:22, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 12/09/15 02:09, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>> +  else if (new_stats.st_nlink == 0) /* XXX: what about multi-linked files. 
>>>  */
>>
>> That comment was my thought exactly.  It appears to be a kernel bug that 
>> really 
>> needs to get fixed in the kernel; there just doesn't seem to be a reliable 
>> workaround in user space.
> 
> I double checked with kernel guys, and Al Viro
> essentially said the inode and directory operations are independent.
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/9/11/790
> 
> So we probably need to handle the IN_DELETE event
> on the directory to cater for this race, as done in:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2015-07/msg00015.html

I'll apply the attached later.

thanks,
Pádraig

tail-unlink-notification-race.patch
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