From owner-cvs-all Mon Nov 26 13: 8:52 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-165-226-105.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.165.226.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66CAA37B419; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 13:08:46 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C54D266BD5; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 13:08:45 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 13:08:45 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Ian Dowse Cc: Alfred Perlstein , Sean Chittenden , Kris Kennaway , jlemon@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/tail forward.c Message-ID: <20011126130845.A18053@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20011126032226.F13393@elvis.mu.org> <200111261103.aa12722@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="envbJBWh7q8WU6mo" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200111261103.aa12722@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>; from iedowse@maths.tcd.ie on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 11:03:41AM +0000 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --envbJBWh7q8WU6mo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 11:03:41AM +0000, Ian Dowse wrote: > In message <20011126032226.F13393@elvis.mu.org>, Alfred Perlstein writes: > >This is really to affdress the issue of FSs that don't support EVFILT > >VNODE (or whatever it is) properly. >=20 > No, as Kris mentioned, this is not the issue. The -F option worked > fine on filesystems that don't support kqueue because tail always > polls in that case. But it's also something which we should think about; otherwise applications which are kq'ed but where the author forgets to implement (retain) fallback polling code will only be usable on kq'ed filesystems. Kris --envbJBWh7q8WU6mo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8Aq9cWry0BWjoQKURAjE0AJ9EWnCp+8AffJOHWf5EIbdzqVGvCgCg9h/4 +86zRGIMcisY+9fyZKr5kDA= =j9kh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --envbJBWh7q8WU6mo-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message