C de-Avillez wrote: > > Sorry for the delay, got busy. I just built & make check, and got two > errors. > > First one is here, I will re-run the second error by itself in a few. > > Running on Ubuntu 9.10 (kernel 2.6.31.5 with Ubuntu mods, libc6 > 2.10.1-0ubuntu6). > > FAIL: tail-2/pid
> + tail --pid=2147483647 -f /dev/null > + fail=1 > + timeout 1 tail -s.1 -f /dev/null --pid=2147483647 > + test 1 = 124 So tail silently returns with 1 immediately. The only way I can see this happening is in tail_forever_inotify() at: if (follow_mode == Follow_descriptor && !found_watchable) return; We should probably issue an error() at that point in any case. I'd better try and pay attention in this meeting ;) cheers, Pádraig.