On January 16, 2016 4:26:49 PM CST, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: >DJ Lucas wrote: >> Just a note that there is a race with inotify in tail >(coreutils-8.24) >> that sometimes causes tests/tail-2/assert.sh to fail. >> >> New patch in repo coreutils-8.24-ulink_notification_race-1.patch that >> fixes tail. Patch allows the test to pass as well. IIUC, it is hardly >a >> serious problem, but should be fixed either by fixing tail, or >killing the >> test (sed /assert.sh/d -i Makefile.in). Fixing tail is obviously >> preferred. I'll get around to this and others I've mentioned recently >in >> the next day or two. Still looking into other suggestions made over >the >> past week. > >I saw the patch when you put it into the repo and read the email chain >about it. Honestly, how often would this come about in practice? You >would have to do a 'tail -f fn' and then delete fn. I don't think I've > >ever done a 'tail -f fn' although I've certainly done 'tail -f' to >stdout. > >The last release of coreutils was July. The one before that was July >2014 >so they may only release once a year. > >In any case this does not seem to be a security bug. Does is rise to >the >level of needing to be in the book?
Like I said, hardly a serious problem. :-) However, the test suite failure should be mentioned, or test excluded. --DJ -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
