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  1. Flume
  2. FLUME-148

text source and tail source are incompatible with unix named pipes

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    • Bug
    • Status: Resolved
    • Major
    • Resolution: Won't Fix
    • 0.9.0, 0.9.1
    • None
    • Sinks+Sources
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    Description

      In an experiment using named pipes, we found that flume's tail and text sources cannot handle named pipes. This is because internally these two sources use RandomAccessFiles which use seek commands instead of bytewise streaming reads.

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          is related to

          Improvement - An improvement or enhancement to an existing feature or task. FLUME-252 Update Tail to get rid of races and truncation problems.

          • Critical - Crashes, loss of data, severe memory leak.
          • Closed
          relates to

          New Feature - A new feature of the product, which has yet to be developed. FLUME-107 Allow Flume to run on Windows

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Resolved

          Documentation - Documentation or Website FLUME-179 Recipe for hooking log4j to flume

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Resolved

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              jmhsieh Jonathan Hsieh
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