| commit | ba6582e95ce2a041423e1ff34c93abe7b4702332 | |
| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | |
| Fri, 13 Sep 2013 15:31:24 +0000 (13 17:31 +0200) | ||
| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | |
| Wed, 27 Nov 2013 01:40:08 +0000 (27 01:40 +0000) | ||
| tree | b9d30c8ff7fc2a00e80b12c5b7f15f318ec02b98 | treesnapshot (tar.gz zip) |
| parent | 799e10f3619ea7949a4f606b2f29b662daf31e3c | commitdiff |
tail: improve inotify handling of symlinks
Previous behavior failed to read contents of a (re)appearing file,
when symlinked by tail's watched file. Also we now diagnose other
edge cases when running in inotify mode, where an initially
missing or regular file changes to a symlink.
* src/tail.c (main): If any arg is a symlink, use polling mode.
(recheck): Diagnose the edge case where a symlink appears during
inotify processing.
* tests/tail-2/symlink.sh: Test the fix. Mention the edge cases.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
Reported by: Ondrej Oprala
Previous behavior failed to read contents of a (re)appearing file,
when symlinked by tail's watched file. Also we now diagnose other
edge cases when running in inotify mode, where an initially
missing or regular file changes to a symlink.
* src/tail.c (main): If any arg is a symlink, use polling mode.
(recheck): Diagnose the edge case where a symlink appears during
inotify processing.
* tests/tail-2/symlink.sh: Test the fix. Mention the edge cases.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
Reported by: Ondrej Oprala
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