[FLUME-693] Add a native mode to tail.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 0.9.4
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.5
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jonathan Hsieh
• Created: 30/Jun/11 21:54
• Updated: 05/Nov/14 10:33
• Resolved: 05/Nov/14 10:33

Description

There are certain uncharacterized situations where tail may reset and cause large numbers of duplicates. A current work-around is to use exec("tail -F <file>") instead of tail/tailDir. This jira would ideally create a (platform-specific) mechanism to properly tail a file by going to jni or executing processes under the covers while preserving the tail/tailDir api.