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From: | Sven Breuner |
Subject: | bug#10349: tail: fix --follow on FhGFS remote file systems |
Date: | Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:33:51 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 |
Jim Meyering wrote on 12/23/2011 07:11 PM:
Pádraig Brady wrote: ...My original goal was to warn, for unknown file system types, that the type is unknown (suggesting to report it), and that tail -f is resorting to the use of polling.Oh right, warn about unknown. That would make sense.Here's a proposed patch: [...] Subject: [PATCH] tail: with -f, use polling when a file is on an FS of unknown type [...]
thanks for that. Definitely a good thing (including the more explicit table of local/remote fs types and the idea of printing a message for unknown fs types to show people an easy way to contribute to the table).
Best regards, Sven
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