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author | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2010-12-17 18:18:57 +0100 |
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committer | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2010-12-17 18:18:57 +0100 |
commit | 50855878062dbcf8d2861ea169d3ca686c65b23b (patch) | |
tree | d1baedc207c6adadb3f18501c8ffd49508b1b936 /tests/timestamp.sh | |
parent | 371a8eec29fa25bbf58f4b1f0d7e3bf4c3ad6329 (diff) | |
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bugfix: imfile potentially duplicates lines
This can happen when 0 bytes are read from the input file, and some
writer appends data to the file BEFORE we check if a rollover happens.
The check for rollover uses the inode and size as a criterion. So far,
we checked for equality of sizes, which is not given in this scenario,
but that does not indicate a rollover. From the source code comments:
Note that when we check the size, we MUST NOT check for equality.
The reason is that the file may have been written right after we
did try to read (so the file size has increased). That is NOT in
indicator of a rollover (this is an actual bug scenario we
experienced). So we need to check if the new size is smaller than
what we already have seen!
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