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Re: inotify back end for tail -f on linux
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: inotify back end for tail -f on linux |
Date: |
Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:46:21 +0200 |
Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
>> However, my first manual test provoked this surprising diagnostic:
>>
>> $ touch k && src/tail -F k &
>> src/tail: cannot watch parent directory of `k': No such file or directory
>>
>> The following patch fixes that.
>> Go ahead and fold it into yours.
>
> Thank you. Do you want me to write tests for such simple use cases?
> It may seem not very helpful but in future it can help to find
> regressions as in this case.
No test is too small or too "obvious" to add ;-)
Adding this simple test would be great.
Thanks!
- Re: inotify back end for tail -f on linux, Jim Meyering, 2009/06/02
- Re: inotify back end for tail -f on linux, Giuseppe Scrivano, 2009/06/02
- Re: inotify back end for tail -f on linux, Jim Meyering, 2009/06/03
- Re: inotify back end for tail -f on linux, Giuseppe Scrivano, 2009/06/04
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- Re: inotify back end for tail -f on linux, Giuseppe Scrivano, 2009/06/04
- Re: inotify back end for tail -f on linux, Jim Meyering, 2009/06/06
- Re: inotify back end for tail -f on linux, Giuseppe Scrivano, 2009/06/06
- Re: inotify back end for tail -f on linux, Jim Meyering, 2009/06/06
- Re: inotify back end for tail -f on linux, Jim Meyering, 2009/06/06
- Re: inotify back end for tail -f on linux, Giuseppe Scrivano, 2009/06/06
- Re: inotify back end for tail -f on linux, Jim Meyering, 2009/06/06
- Re: inotify back end for tail -f on linux, Giuseppe Scrivano, 2009/06/07
- Re: inotify back end for tail -f on linux, Jim Meyering, 2009/06/07
- Re: inotify back end for tail -f on linux, Jim Meyering, 2009/06/07