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bug#7813: [Bug 700958] Re: tail -f gives misleading error message when i
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Jim Meyering |
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bug#7813: [Bug 700958] Re: tail -f gives misleading error message when inotify limit is reached |
Date: |
Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:50:10 +0100 |
A. Bram Neijt wrote:
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> Status: New
Thanks for the report.
This was fixed for 8.6:
commit 61b77891c2d9af299063850a0c4d1d721340cfff
Author: Pádraig Brady <address@hidden>
Date: Tue Oct 12 01:39:58 2010 +0100
tail: fix checking of currently unavailable directories
* src/tail.c (tail_forever_inotify): Handle the case where
tail --follow=name with inotify, is not able to add a watch on
a specified directory. This may happen due to inotify resource
limits or if the directory is currently missing or inaccessible.
In all these cases, revert to polling which will try to reopen
the file later. Note inotify returns ENOSPC when it runs out
of resources, and instead we report a particular error message,
lest users think one of their file systems is full.
(main): Document another caveat with using inotify, where we
currently don't recheck directories recreated after the
initial watch is setup.
* tests/tail-2/F-vs-rename: Fix the endless loop triggered by
the above issue.
* tests/tail-2/inotify-hash-abuse: Likewise.
* tests/tail-2/wait: Don't fail in the resource exhaustion case.
* tests/tail-2/F-vs-missing: A new test for this failure mode
which was until now just triggered on older buggy linux kernels
which returned ENOSPC constantly from inotify_add_watch().
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
With coreutils-8.6 and newer, you'd see this:
tail: inotify resources exhausted
tail: inotify cannot be used, reverting to polling
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