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Date:      Sat, 2 Sep 2000 17:21:59 +0100
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Fred Gilham <gilham@snapdragon.csl.sri.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: tail -f over NFS in -stable
Message-ID:  <20000902172159.B43451@magnesium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20000902171753.A43451@magnesium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
References:  <200009011622.JAA29262@csla.csl.sri.com> <20000902171753.A43451@magnesium.scientia.demon.co.uk>

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Ben Smithurst wrote:

> Fred Gilham wrote:
> 
>> In 4.1-stable tail -f over NFS polls rather than blocking.
> 
> Yes, this is acknowledged in the kqueue() manual page.  Try this patch,
> it seems to work for me so I might commit it if no-one objects.

Scratch that, the problem is fixed in -current (kevent returns
'Operation not supported' for an NFS), so you'll just have to wait until
that bit of code is MFC'd.

The patch will work as a temporary fix for you though.

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