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");
--
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