GNU bug report logs - #7813
tail -f gives misleading error message when inotify limit is reached

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Bram Neijt <bneijt <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:39:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #13 received at 7813-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: 7813-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7813: [Bug 700958] Re: tail -f gives misleading error message
	when inotify limit is reached
Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 12:36:49 +0200

Jim Meyering wrote:
> A. Bram Neijt wrote:
>> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=7813
...
> Thanks for the report.
> This was fixed for 8.6:
>
> commit 61b77891c2d9af299063850a0c4d1d721340cfff
> Author: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
> Date:   Tue Oct 12 01:39:58 2010 +0100
>
>     tail: fix checking of currently unavailable directories
...
> With coreutils-8.6 and newer, you'd see this:
>
>     tail: inotify resources exhausted
>     tail: inotify cannot be used, reverting to polling

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