bug#23539: tail -f file name headings displayed too many times after suspend

[Pádraig Brady]

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On 20/05/16 05:08, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 15/05/16 00:06, Janne Snabb wrote:
>> The attached patch fixes this bug for me.
>>
>> The patch moves the write_header() call in the inotify case to
>> dump_remainder() where write_header() is called only if some file
>> content is going to be output.
>>
>> I am not sure if this is the best approach. Another approach would be to
>> change the inotify event handling so that all queued events are read at
>> once and duplicates are eliminated before acting on them. Now it reads
>> and acts on them one.
> 
> I'd prefer to handle this much like you've done in the patch.
> I.E. avoid more complications with inotify.
> However consider the case where a file is truncated,
> with your patch subsequent writes will not get a header. I.E.
> 
>    echo file1 > file1
>    echo file2 > file2
>    tail -f file1 file2
> 
> Then in parallel:
> 
>    > file1
>    echo file1 > file1
> 
> You'll get output like:
> 
>    ==> file1 <==
>    file1
> 
>    ==> file2 <==
>    file2
>    tail: file1: file truncated
>    file1

The attached variant also handles the case above, and includes a test.
I'll push in your name tomorrow.

sorry for the delay on this.

Pádraig

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