On 27/06/2021 02:47, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 6/24/21 8:50 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
inotify_init can return 1025 even if called first thing, so we also need
to dup2 the result of early inotify_init down to 3 (or whatever), or at
least to check that it's less than 1024. Choosing 3 is a tricky
busines
On Sunday, June 27, 2021 3:47:46 AM CEST Paul Eggert wrote:
> When looking into this I decided it was cleaner to fix coreutils by
> using 'poll' instead of 'select', as Kamil suggested. I installed the
> attached patches to do that. The last patch fixes the bug.
This works for me. Thank you for t
On 6/24/21 8:50 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
inotify_init can return 1025 even if called first thing, so we also need
to dup2 the result of early inotify_init down to 3 (or whatever), or at
least to check that it's less than 1024. Choosing 3 is a tricky
business, since it's not clear what fds the C
On 6/24/21 7:50 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
We should be able to inotify_init() earlier in the process to avoid this
issue.
inotify_init can return 1025 even if called first thing, so we also need
to dup2 the result of early inotify_init down to 3 (or whatever), or at
least to check that it's le
On Thursday, June 24, 2021 4:50:25 PM CEST Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Note the number of descriptors select() is waiting on in independent of the
> number of files. We should be able to inotify_init() earlier in the process
> to avoid this issue. I'll have a look.
Good idea! This could make it work i
On 24/06/2021 15:26, Kamil Dudka wrote:
Hello,
As originally reported by Stepan Broz (CC'd), tail --follow crashes when it
is given too many files to follow, and ulimit -n is set to >1024.
FD_SET(wd, &rfd) in tail_forever_inotify() writes beyond the stack-allocated
variable in case wd >= FD_SET
Hello,
As originally reported by Stepan Broz (CC'd), tail --follow crashes when it
is given too many files to follow, and ulimit -n is set to >1024.
FD_SET(wd, &rfd) in tail_forever_inotify() writes beyond the stack-allocated
variable in case wd >= FD_SETSIZE. Minimal example:
# mkdir dir
# cd
