Re: Unexpected info in tail cmd

[Jim Meyering]

On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 9:09 AM, Bernhard Voelker
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 11/30/2017 12:28 PM, Abhishek Kandoi wrote:
>> tail: unrecognized file system type 0x794c7630 for 'somefile.log'. please
>> report this to address@hidden. reverting to polling
>
> Thanks, this is already fixed in coreutils >= 8.25 (we're currently at 8.28).
>
> You're in good company with some other users:
> https://bugs.gnu.org/29330
> https://bugs.gnu.org/28970
> https://bugs.gnu.org/29022
> https://bugs.gnu.org/28929
> https://bugs.gnu.org/28775
> https://bugs.gnu.org/28290
> https://bugs.gnu.org/28068
> https://bugs.gnu.org/27513
> https://bugs.gnu.org/27276
> https://bugs.gnu.org/26869
> https://bugs.gnu.org/26766
> https://bugs.gnu.org/24927
> https://bugs.gnu.org/24447
> https://bugs.gnu.org/23250
> https://bugs.gnu.org/23125
> https://bugs.gnu.org/22977
> https://bugs.gnu.org/22839
> https://bugs.gnu.org/22393
> https://bugs.gnu.org/22233
> https://bugs.gnu.org/22151

Time to change the wording of that diagnostic to encourage "search for
previous reports involving that file system type, and if not found,
*then* report it to ...". We could probably even give a decent
suggested URL.