bug#7274: tail-2/F-vs-missing failure on RHEL 5.5 x86-64 + NetApp filer

[Pádraig Brady]

On 24/10/10 02:39, Paul Eggert wrote:
> I got the following failure when running "make test"
> on RHEL 5.5 x86-64 when the build directory is served
> from a Network Appliance filer.  I'm no expert in what
> "tail" is supposed to do here, but a casual look at the
> output makes it appear that it might just be a bug in
> the test program.  The filer does suffer from minor
> clock skew with respect to the RHEL client.
> 
> FAIL: tail-2/F-vs-missing (exit: 1)
> ===================================
> 
> tail: cannot open `missing/file' for reading: No such file or directory
> tail: cannot watch parent directory of `missing/file': No such file or 
> directory
> tail: inotify cannot be used, reverting to polling
> tail: `missing/file' has been replaced with a remote file. giving up on this 
> name
> + fail=1

Seems like an edge case I didn't consider in 61b77891
Hopefully the attached fixes it.

cheers,
Pádraig.

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