After the recent change to tail -f,
tail -f now uses polling (not inotify) when any of its file arguments
resides on a file system of unknown type. In addition, for each such
argument, tail -f prints a warning with the FS type magic number and a
request to report it to the bug-rep
On 12/26/2011 03:50 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> --- a/src/stat.c
> +++ b/src/stat.c
> +case S_MAGIC_PIPEFS: /* 0x50495045 remote */
> + /* FIXME: change syntax or add an optional attribute like "inotify:no".
> + The above is labeled as "remote" so that tail always uses polling,
> +
Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 12/26/2011 03:50 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> --- a/src/stat.c
>> +++ b/src/stat.c
>
>> +case S_MAGIC_PIPEFS: /* 0x50495045 remote */
>> + /* FIXME: change syntax or add an optional attribute like
>> "inotify:no".
>> + The above is labeled as "remote" so th