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Re: [PATCH] tail should dereference watched file
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [PATCH] tail should dereference watched file |
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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]
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> 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/
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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