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Implement tail -F, which is the same as supplying both -f and --retry #848

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fitzgen opened this issue Mar 26, 2016 · 3 comments · Fixed by #2695
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Implement tail -F, which is the same as supplying both -f and --retry #848

fitzgen opened this issue Mar 26, 2016 · 3 comments · Fixed by #2695

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@fitzgen
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fitzgen commented Mar 26, 2016

From tail's man page:

       -F     same as --follow=name --retry

Depends on #847 to implement --retry.

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mrmiywj commented May 5, 2016

@fitzgen
Hi, I read through the man page, it shows that --follow is allowed to be with name or descriptor, which means different ways to print the file. But our implementation, it looks like only descriptor mode is supported, which is not compatible with --retry.
I do think name and descriptor modes should be separated.
You can find the specificatio here

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mrmiywj commented May 6, 2016

Hmm, actually the files' metadata API is unstable now, is there any solution to know whether the file changes or not?

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