Re: `tail -f` intermittency

[dae3]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:

> [please post with a valid email address]

On Usenet? No way.

> Unfortunately, that breaks threading and makes replying to you very
> awkward.  The newsgroup that you are referring to is merely a gateway
> around a mailing list, and you picked the wrong gateway.

Where does one learn which is the "right" gateway?

> If you want a newsgroup gateway around the coreutils mailing list, you
> can use http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs among
> others.

I use Gmane for lots of other MLs. But Gmane asks for confirmation that
one is allowed to post, which for most MLs means one is subscribed. In
fact, I would have used Gmane if I had been able to subscribe OR if I'd
known subscription wasn't necessary for this particular ML.

> Meanwhile, most GNU mailing lists do not require you to be a
> subscriber to post - there is a human moderator in the loop which
> allows non-subscribers posts through, so waiting for a confirmation
> mail is not necessary.

Thanks for the info. It's VERY helpful that this list's website not only
has no such notice, but even ASKS you to subscribe and tells you to wait
for a freaking confirmation email that will never get sent.

Anyway.

The changelogs say nothing about tail's -f flag, which means I'm not
going to compile and install a newer version.

I've reported my findings. If anyone wants to look into them, fine. If
not, that's OK too. It's not like you guys owe *me* something. The
reverse is also true, BTW.

Meanwhile, I'll just use something else. Thank you.


-- 
~> cat /etc/redhat-release && uname -a
Scientific Linux SL release 5.2 (Boron)
Linux acerrimo.local 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 #1 SMP Tue Dec 16 06:50:02 EST 
2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux