Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 13:08:45 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, jlemon@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/tail forward.c Message-ID: <20011126130845.A18053@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200111261103.aa12722@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>; from iedowse@maths.tcd.ie on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 11:03:41AM %2B0000 References: <20011126032226.F13393@elvis.mu.org> <200111261103.aa12722@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
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--envbJBWh7q8WU6mo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 11:03:41AM +0000, Ian Dowse wrote: > In message <20011126032226.F13393@elvis.mu.org>, Alfred Perlstein writes: > >This is really to affdress the issue of FSs that don't support EVFILT > >VNODE (or whatever it is) properly. >=20 > No, as Kris mentioned, this is not the issue. The -F option worked > fine on filesystems that don't support kqueue because tail always > polls in that case. But it's also something which we should think about; otherwise applications which are kq'ed but where the author forgets to implement (retain) fallback polling code will only be usable on kq'ed filesystems. Kris --envbJBWh7q8WU6mo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8Aq9cWry0BWjoQKURAjE0AJ9EWnCp+8AffJOHWf5EIbdzqVGvCgCg9h/4 +86zRGIMcisY+9fyZKr5kDA= =j9kh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --envbJBWh7q8WU6mo-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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