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Re: tail is reading already rotated file.


From: Pádraig Brady
Subject: Re: tail is reading already rotated file.
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 22:57:45 +0000
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On 04/02/15 10:09, 최종우 wrote:
> To reproduce the problem, you can run this script. It exhausted inotify 
> watches. (in order to get the result more quickly, decrease the value of 
> max_user_watches.)
> 
> let count=0; echo $count>>a.log; ./tail -F a.log & while true; do mv a.log 
> a.log.$count; let count=count+1; echo $count>>a.log; done
> 
> I tested this problem in coreutils 8.4 and 8.23.

Proposed patch to fix this is attached.

thanks,
Pádraig.

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