[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#441971: smbfs: tail -f on growing file shared from WINXP BOX not working

[maciej rzepkowski]

Package: smbfs
Version: 3.0.24-6etch4
Severity: important



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-amd64
Locale: LANG=pl_PL, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL (charmap=ISO-8859-2) (ignored: LC_ALL set to pl_PL)

Versions of packages smbfs depends on:
ii  libc6    2.3.6.ds1-13etch2               GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcomer 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2 common error description library
ii  libkrb53 1.4.4-7etch2                    MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap2 2.1.30-13.3                     OpenLDAP libraries
ii  netbase  4.29                            Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii  samba-co 3.0.24-6etch4                   Samba common files used by both th

smbfs recommends no packages.

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tail -f not working, less F not working, when I list the mounted directory, I see that file has all time the sime size, what is not true.

For example perl script which not working to

my $fn = '/mounted_from_xp/file.txt';
open (FH, "<$fn");
for (;;) {
        while (<FH>) {
                print $_;
        }
        sleep 1;
        seek(FH, 0, 1);
}