Attachment 908415 Details for Bug 1104244 – proposed upstream patch

[patch] proposed upstream patch

coreutils-tail-vxfs.patch (text/plain), 1.85 KB, created by Pádraig Brady on 2014-06-13 08:31:42 UTC

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>From f60aab9103499c48c055eb3678a4c5b0893312d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>From: =?UTF-8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= <P@draigBrady.com>
>Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 09:16:31 +0100
>Subject: [PATCH] tail: fix to use polling mode for VXFS
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>Veritas File System can run in single instance or clustered mode,
>so mark as remote to avoid using inotify for the latter case.
>
>* src/stat.c (human_fstype): Tag VXFS as remote to use polling
>for the VXCFS variant.
>* NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
>
>Reported by OndÅej VaÅ¡Ãk in http://bugzilla.redhat.com/1104244
>Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/17770
>---
> NEWS       |    3 +++
> src/stat.c |    4 +++-
> 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
>index 2f43da6..5d1fe99 100644
>--- a/NEWS
>+++ b/NEWS
>@@ -77,6 +77,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
>   shuf --repeat no longer dumps core if the input is empty.
>   [bug introduced with the --repeat feature in coreutils-8.22]
> 
>+  tail -f now uses polling mode for VXFS to cater for its clustered mode.
>+  [bug introduced with inotify support added in coreutils-7.5]
>+
> ** New features
> 
>   od accepts a new option: --endian=TYPE to handle inputs with different byte
>diff --git a/src/stat.c b/src/stat.c
>index 0f67d22..b65dbe5 100644
>--- a/src/stat.c
>+++ b/src/stat.c
>@@ -443,7 +443,9 @@ human_fstype (STRUCT_STATVFS const *statfsbuf)
>       return "v9fs";
>     case S_MAGIC_VMHGFS: /* 0xBACBACBC remote */
>       return "vmhgfs";
>-    case S_MAGIC_VXFS: /* 0xA501FCF5 local */
>+    case S_MAGIC_VXFS: /* 0xA501FCF5 remote */
>+      /* Veritas File System can run in single instance or clustered mode,
>+         so mark as remote to cater for the latter case.  */
>       return "vxfs";
>     case S_MAGIC_VZFS: /* 0x565A4653 local */
>       return "vzfs";
>-- 
>1.7.7.6
>

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