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tail -f on Network FS not refreshing as soon as the file is changed.

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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: Re: bug#31184: tail -f on Network FS not refreshing as soon as the
 file is changed.
Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 22:10:26 -0700

On 22/05/18 14:23, Jewsco Pius Jacquez wrote:
> Any more ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jewsco
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jewsco Pius Jacquez 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 8, 2018 8:56 AM
> To: 'Pádraig Brady' <P <at> draigBrady.com>; 31184 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Subject: RE: bug#31184: tail -f on Network FS not refreshing as soon as the file is changed.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Still the same, the -f doesn't refresh. it applies to CIFS and NFS filesystem. Is it something related on how the network filesystem was designed?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jewsco
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pádraig Brady [mailto:P <at> draigBrady.com]
> Sent: Saturday, May 5, 2018 5:52 PM
> To: Jewsco Pius Jacquez <JewscoPius.Jacquez <at> Amdocs.com>; 31184 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Subject: Re: bug#31184: tail -f on Network FS not refreshing as soon as the file is changed.
> 
> On 04/05/18 08:12, Jewsco Pius Jacquez wrote:
>> Thanks, did I missed anything?
>>
>> [jjacquez <at> cmilsbtest02 ~]$ wget --quiet 
>> https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/coreutils/coreutils-8.29.tar.xz
>> [jjacquez <at> cmilsbtest02 ~]$ cksum coreutils-8.29.tar.xz
>> 926393761 5286588 coreutils-8.29.tar.xz
>> [jjacquez <at> cmilsbtest02 ~]$ tar -xf coreutils-8.29.tar.xz
>> [jjacquez <at> cmilsbtest02 ~]$ cd coreutils-8.29/
>> [jjacquez <at> cmilsbtest02 coreutils-8.29]$ wget --quiet 
>> 'https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/7fc7206.patch' -O- | 
>> patch -R -p1 && make patching file NEWS Unreversed patch detected!
>> Ignore -R? [n] Apply anyway? [n] Skipping patch.
>> 1 out of 1 hunk ignored -- saving rejects to file NEWS.rej patching 
>> file src/tail.c Hunk #1 FAILED at 1220.
>> 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file src/tail.c.rej
>> [jjacquez <at> cmilsbtest02 coreutils-8.29]$
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jewsco
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Pádraig Brady [mailto:P <at> draigBrady.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, May 3, 2018 8:47 PM
>> To: Jewsco Pius Jacquez <JewscoPius.Jacquez <at> Amdocs.com>; 
>> 31184 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Subject: Re: bug#31184: tail -f on Network FS not refreshing as soon as the file is changed.
>>
>> 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 <at> 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 <at> 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 <at> 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
> 
> Drats sorry. There were conflicting patches in the meantime.
> You can tweak it like:
> 
>  cd coreutils-8.29 &&
>  wget 'https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/7fc7206.patch' -O- |  sed 's/name,/false, name,/' |  patch -p1 -R -t &&  make
> 
> cheers,
> Pádraig
> This message and the information contained herein is proprietary and confidential and subject to the Amdocs policy statement,

Well I can't repro with 8.29 on nfs here.
Perhaps the read() is blocking or something.
It would be useful to get the output of:

  strace -o tail.strace tail -f /media/samba/test.file

Also for completeness, it would be good to give
the command used to write to the file on the remote end.

thanks,
Pádraig

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