Re: [PATCH] tail should dereference watched file

[Bernhard Voelker]

> On September 16, 2013 at 2:20 PM Ondrej Oprala <address@hidden> wrote:
> thank you both for looking at the patch.

No worries.
Just for the record: the new test was racy:

> +echo 1 > file
> +ln -sf file filelink
> +
> +#watch a symlink
> +tail -F ./filelink > out 2>/dev/null &
> +
> +rm file
> +echo 2 > file
> +kill %1
> +
> +#does tail output the contents of a reappearing file?
> +[ $(wc -l < out) = 2 ] || fail=1

It is not guaranteed that the rm(1) comes after tail(1) had
a chance to see line "1".  See tests/tail-2/retry.sh.

Have a nice day,
Berny