GNU bug report logs - #21265
tail -f: inotify being used on non-regular files

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 12:36:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: wontfix

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: 21265 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21265: tail -f: inotify being used on non-regular files
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 14:57:24 -0600

tags 21265 wontfix
close 21265
stop

(triaging old bugs)

On 26/08/15 05:19 AM, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> 2015-08-26 03:13:59 +0100, Pádraig Brady:
> [...]
>>
>> The same argument applies that the kernel should return
>> and error when adding a watch on pseudo file systems like /proc?
>> To work around that, we'd have to get real kludgy and see
>> were the files on a "dummy" file system or something.
[...]
>> Though tail -f /proc files in either mode is not that useful,
>> so probably not worrying about that case.
> [...]
> 
> All very good points.
> 
> Many files in /proc, /sys... can only be read reliably in one read()
> operation anyway, and doing tail -f on them would give you
> garbage even if it worked.

Given the above, and no further comments in 3 years,
I'm closing this bug.

-assaf
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 272 days ago.

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