Subject: bug#31184: tail -f on Network FS not refreshing as soon as the file is changed.

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 3 May 2018 18:47:21 -0700

On 02/05/18 06:39, Jewsco Pius Jacquez wrote:
> I tried and the --follow=name doesn't refresh either. The stat output is changing.
> 
> [jjacquez@cmilsbtest03 ~]$ tail --follow=name /media/samba/test.file
> append Wed May  2 08:35:54 CDT 2018
> append Wed May  2 08:35:54 CDT 2018
> append Wed May  2 08:35:54 CDT 2018
> append Wed May  2 08:35:54 CDT 2018
> append Wed May  2 08:35:54 CDT 2018
> append Wed May  2 08:35:54 CDT 2018
> append Wed May  2 08:35:54 CDT 2018
> append Wed May  2 08:35:54 CDT 2018
> append Wed May  2 08:35:54 CDT 2018
> append Wed May  2 08:35:55 CDT 2018
> ^C
> [jjacquez@cmilsbtest03 ~]$ tail --follow=name /media/samba/test.file
> append Wed May  2 08:36:01 CDT 2018
> append Wed May  2 08:36:01 CDT 2018
> append Wed May  2 08:36:01 CDT 2018
> append Wed May  2 08:36:02 CDT 2018
> append Wed May  2 08:36:02 CDT 2018
> append Wed May  2 08:36:02 CDT 2018
> append Wed May  2 08:36:02 CDT 2018
> append Wed May  2 08:36:02 CDT 2018
> append Wed May  2 08:36:02 CDT 2018
> append Wed May  2 08:36:02 CDT 2018
> ^C
> [jjacquez@cmilsbtest03 ~]$ while :; do stat -c '%s' /media/samba/test.file; sleep 1; done
> 1649717
> 1650077
> 1650401
> 1650761
> 1651121
> 1651445
> 1651769
> 1652093
> 1652417
> 
> 
> About the reverting the patch, so I need to download the source and patch it?
> 
>   cd coreutils-8.29 &&
>   wget 'https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/7fc7206.patch' -O- |
>   patch -R -p1 &&
>   make

You'd done that previously, for for completeness
yes you need to download the source first like:

  wget https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/coreutils/coreutils-8.29.tar.xz
  tar -xf coreutils-8.29.tar.xz

thanks,
Pádraig