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Date:      Sat, 2 Sep 2000 17:17:53 +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:  <20000902171753.A43451@magnesium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <200009011622.JAA29262@csla.csl.sri.com>
References:  <200009011622.JAA29262@csla.csl.sri.com>

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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.

Index: forward.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/usr.bin/tail/forward.c,v
retrieving revision 1.15
diff -u -r1.15 forward.c
--- forward.c	2000/07/18 19:38:38	1.15
+++ forward.c	2000/09/02 16:16:40
@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@
 static char sccsid[] = "@(#)forward.c	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93";
 #endif /* not lint */
 
-#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/param.h>
+#include <sys/mount.h>
 #include <sys/stat.h>
 #include <sys/time.h>
 #include <sys/mman.h>
@@ -96,6 +97,7 @@
 	int action = USE_SLEEP;
 	struct kevent ev[2];
 	struct stat sb2;
+	struct statfs statfsbuf;
 
 	switch(style) {
 	case FBYTES:
@@ -170,7 +172,10 @@
 		break;
 	}
 
-	if (fflag) {
+	if (statfs(fname, &statfsbuf) != 0)
+		err(1, "statfs %s", fname);
+
+	if (fflag && strcmp(statfsbuf.f_fstypename, "ufs") == 0) {
 		kq = kqueue();
 		if (kq < 0)
 			err(1, "kqueue");
-- 
Ben Smithurst                 / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D
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