Bug 1283760
| Summary: | coreutils: tail: inotify support changes behavior of -F with subdirs | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Robbie Harwood <rharwood> |
| Component: | coreutils | Assignee: | Sebastian Kisela <skisela> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 26 | CC: | admiller, kdudka, kzak, ovasik, p, rharwood, twaugh |
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| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | coreutils-8.27-5.fc26 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
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| Last Closed: | 2017-05-01 18:16:57 UTC | Type: | Bug |
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Description
Robbie Harwood
2015-11-19 18:30:02 UTC
This appears to work just fine on my Fedora 23 box with an ext4 file system and coreutils-8.24-4.fc23.x86_64: $ mkdir scratchdir $ touch scratchdir/tests.log $ tail -F scratchdir/tests.log & [1] 5060 $ echo test > scratchdir/tests.log test $ rm scratchdir/tests.log tail: ‘scratchdir/tests.log’ has become inaccessible: No such file or directory $ echo test > scratchdir/tests.log tail: ‘scratchdir/tests.log’ has appeared; following new file test Please tell us: - the exact NVR of coreutils - the output of "uname -a" - type of the file system in use - what exactly you tried (a finite sequence of commands) - what the actual result was Looking once again, I figured out that you actually meant this:
$ rm -rf scratchdir
Then I am able to reproduce it on Fedora 23. It indeed does not work. I guess it is related to the following comment in tail's source code:
FIXME: when using inotify, and a directory for a watched file
is recreated, then we don't recheck any new file when
follow_mode == Follow_name.
Yes, you are right; sorry for the confusion. This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database. Reassigning to the new owner of this component. This message is a reminder that Fedora 23 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 23. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '23'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version. Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not able to fix it before Fedora 23 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 26 development cycle. Changing version to '26'. Reassigning to Sebastian Kisela, who is currently working on a patch for this. This issue is discussed also here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2017-04/msg00005.html coreutils-8.27-5.fc26 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 26. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-b17d54561b coreutils-8.25-17.fc25 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 25. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-a9fd966808 coreutils-8.25-9.fc24 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 24. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-fb8bb34a62 coreutils-8.25-9.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-fb8bb34a62 coreutils-8.25-17.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-a9fd966808 coreutils-8.27-5.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-b17d54561b coreutils-8.27-5.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. coreutils-8.25-17.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. coreutils-8.25-9.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |