GNU bug report logs - #25323
Tail on Ubuntu on Windows: unrecognised file system type 0x53464846

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Luke Moll <luke.moll2 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2017 17:46:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 23273, 24078, 24388, 24437, 24792, 24847, 24859, 25161, 25369, 25417, 25510, 25516, 25567, 25806, 25837, 25982, 26206, 26377, 26689, 26992, 27001, 27478, 27680, 30392

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 25323 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Luke Moll <luke.moll2 <at> gmail.com>, 25323 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25323: Tail on Ubuntu on Windows: unrecognised file system
 type 0x53464846
Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2017 22:25:48 +0000

unarchive 23273
forcemerge 23273 25323
close 25323
stop

On 01/01/17 17:17, Luke Moll wrote:
> While using tail -f in the Windows Subsystem for Linux, I received the
> following error:
> 
> tail: unrecognised file system type 0x53464846 for ‘ls.txt’. please report
> this to bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org. reverting to polling
> 
> The file still updated as it was written to, and didn't crash or anything,
> but I thought I'd do my duty and report this. I'm sure this is a very niche
> use case. I'm using Windows 10 Version 1607, build 14393.576
> 
> Thanks for the GNU goodness!

A fix for this is already released.

thanks,
Pádraig
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