Hi Carl,
Carl Dong skribis:
> I’m continuing my testing of the 1.3.0 branch, and I’ve found that coreutil's
> tests/tail-2/inotify-dir-recreate.sh fails on filesystems where tail detects
> that it cannot use inotify safely (probably arising out of this check:
> https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/34a48bf0f0552aaed21a7dba4a5488946a978317/src/tail.c#L2486-L2491).
> Example for this: overlayfs used by docker/podman/etc.
>
> The author of tail’s inotify support explains it here:
> https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/5493#issuecomment-598851397
[...]
> Upstream bug filed: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=47940
With people more on more interested in finally getting ‘core-updates’
merged, now’s a good time to look into this bug. :-)
In the bug report upstream, you hint at a possible fix. Could you
provide a patch for this?
Alternatively, if that turns out to be too tricky, can you think of a
workaround, such as skipping the offending code during tests?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
