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Date:      Thu, 22 Jun 2000 13:52:06 -0500
From:      Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>
To:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org, jlemon@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tail after kqueue changes
Message-ID:  <20000622135206.A70466@prism.flugsvamp.com>
In-Reply-To: <200006221525.RAA01268@Magelan.Leidinger.net>
References:  <200006221525.RAA01268@Magelan.Leidinger.net>

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On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 05:25:55PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using the "-F" option of tail for some files which get rotated away.
> 
> After the changes to use kqueue/kevent it didn't work as expected
> anymore. tail exits after the file gets rotated.
> Perhaps it didn't wait long enough to see the new file: I did a "tail
> test.txt" in one terminal and a "mv test.txt; touch test.txt" in another
> and I got "tail: test.txt: No such file or directory".

I got a little too aggressive when following the file; it wouuld switch
to the new file immediately, and get upset when it couldn't find it.

I've just committed a fix which allows for a window of time where 
the file doesn't exist at all, which should solve the above problem.
--
Jonathan


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