From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Carl Dong <contact@carldong.me>
Cc: 47935@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47935: coreutils: tests/tail-2/inotify-dir-recreate.sh fails on overlayfs
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2021 21:29:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y2bqu4qi.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A93F37F7-ADA3-48FF-A1D4-800842F706AB@carldong.me> (Carl Dong's message of "Wed, 21 Apr 2021 11:35:50 -0400")
Hi Carl,
Carl Dong <contact@carldong.me> skribis:
> I’m continuing my testing of the 1.3.0 branch, and I’ve found that coreutil's tests/tail-2/inotify-dir-recreate.sh fails on filesystems where tail detects that it cannot use inotify safely (probably arising out of this check: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/34a48bf0f0552aaed21a7dba4a5488946a978317/src/tail.c#L2486-L2491). Example for this: overlayfs used by docker/podman/etc.
>
> The author of tail’s inotify support explains it here: https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/5493#issuecomment-598851397
[...]
> Upstream bug filed: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=47940
With people more on more interested in finally getting ‘core-updates’
merged, now’s a good time to look into this bug. :-)
In the bug report upstream, you hint at a possible fix. Could you
provide a patch for this?
Alternatively, if that turns out to be too tricky, can you think of a
workaround, such as skipping the offending code during tests?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
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2021-04-21 15:35 bug#47935: coreutils: tests/tail-2/inotify-dir-recreate.sh fails on overlayfs Carl Dong
2021-04-22 1:20 ` Carl Dong
2021-06-03 19:29 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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