On Sat, 2010-10-23 at 10:15 -0700, suvayu ali wrote: > On 23 October 2010 10:10, Marko Vojinovic <vvma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > As for the <pid>, my guess is that the process that opens the file for > > writing > > is the only one allowed to actually write to it, since otherwise one can > > get a > > race condition and data might get corrupted. Once that process dies, tail > > will > > die along with it, leaving a clean /tmp/flashfile.flv as a result. At least > > that > > is my theory. ;-) > > > > Now, all that is needed is that someone write a script and try it out. I am > > not very versatile with extracting <pid> and <file_id> and such stuff, but > > otherwise the script should be trivial. :-) > > You can try it with the shell function I posted earlier in the thread. > Putting your tail command instead of the cp should be a good test. ;)
I did a quick test copying /dev/zero and it seems to work, i.e. tail copies the nulls as one would hope. Also the '--pid=' option works as advertised. poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
