GNU bug report logs - #31184
tail -f on Network FS not refreshing as soon as the file is changed.

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Jewsco Pius Jacquez <JewscoPius.Jacquez <at> Amdocs.com>

Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:26:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Jewsco Pius Jacquez <JewscoPius.Jacquez <at> Amdocs.com>, "31184 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <31184 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#31184: tail -f on Network FS not refreshing as soon as the file is changed.
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 20:03:53 -0700

Could you clarify whether the rhel7 version of tail
is too slow when showing updates to the file,
or misses updates to the file entirely.

There have been various fixes to tail, so it
would be worth verifying how the latest behaves, like:

  wget https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/coreutils/coreutils-8.29.tar.xz
  tar -xf coreutils-8.29.tar.xz
  cd coreutils-8.29
  ./configure --quiet && make -j$(nproc)
  src/tail -f /media/samba/test.file

cheers,
Pádraig
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