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bug#10349: tail: fix --follow on FhGFS remote file systems
From: |
Pádraig Brady |
Subject: |
bug#10349: tail: fix --follow on FhGFS remote file systems |
Date: |
Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:48:19 +0000 |
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On 12/22/2011 09:50 PM, Alan Curry wrote:
> Bob Proulx writes:
>>
>> Jim Meyering wrote:
>>> Are there so many new remote file systems coming into use now?
>>> That are not listed in /usr/include/linux/magic.h?
>>
>> The past can always be enumerated. The future is always changing. It
>> isn't possible to have a complete list of future items. It is only
>> possible to have a complete list of past items. The future is not yet
>> written.
>
> Between past and future is the present, i.e. the currently running kernel.
> Shouldn't it return an error when you use an interface that isn't implemented
> by the underlying filesystem? Why doesn't this happen?
That's a fair point.
Eric shouldn't some/all remote file systems in the kernel
return ENOTSUP for inotify operations?
We'd still need to handle this in `tail` for unpatched kernels,
but going forward it would decrease the coreutils maintenance burden.
cheers,
Pádraig.
- bug#10349: tail: fix --follow on FhGFS remote file systems, Sven Breuner, 2011/12/21
- bug#10349: tail: fix --follow on FhGFS remote file systems, Jim Meyering, 2011/12/22
- bug#10349: tail: fix --follow on FhGFS remote file systems, Sven Breuner, 2011/12/22
- bug#10349: tail: fix --follow on FhGFS remote file systems, Bob Proulx, 2011/12/22
- bug#10349: tail: fix --follow on FhGFS remote file systems, Alan Curry, 2011/12/22
- bug#10349: tail: fix --follow on FhGFS remote file systems,
Pádraig Brady <=
- bug#10349: tail: fix --follow on FhGFS remote file systems, Pádraig Brady, 2011/12/22
- bug#10349: tail: fix --follow on FhGFS remote file systems, Jim Meyering, 2011/12/23
- bug#10349: tail: fix --follow on FhGFS remote file systems, Pádraig Brady, 2011/12/23
- bug#10349: tail: fix --follow on FhGFS remote file systems, Jim Meyering, 2011/12/23
- bug#10349: tail: fix --follow on FhGFS remote file systems, Pádraig Brady, 2011/12/23
- bug#10349: tail: fix --follow on FhGFS remote file systems, Jim Meyering, 2011/12/23
- bug#10349: tail: fix --follow on FhGFS remote file systems, Pádraig Brady, 2011/12/23
- bug#10349: tail: fix --follow on FhGFS remote file systems, Jim Meyering, 2011/12/23
- bug#10349: tail: fix --follow on FhGFS remote file systems, Sven Breuner, 2011/12/23
- bug#10349: tail: fix --follow on FhGFS remote file systems, Sven Breuner, 2011/12/22