(tail_forever): Do not treat

max_n_unchanged_stats_between_opens specially (as if it were
infinite) if it has its maximal value.  Similarly for
max_n_consecutive_size_changes_between_opens.

diff --git a/src/tail.c b/src/tail.c
index 73b3ab717ae484f0c445c230aa9a8a92c2e57438..c759d489368fb20e64ce21025c312139fb1b0482 100644 (file)
--- a/src/tail.c
+++ b/src/tail.c
@@ -962,7 +962,8 @@ tail_forever (struct File_spec *f, int nfiles)
          if (stats.st_size == f[i].size)
            {
              f[i].n_consecutive_size_changes = 0;
-             if (++f[i].n_unchanged_stats > max_n_unchanged_stats_between_opens
+             if ((max_n_unchanged_stats_between_opens
+                  <= f[i].n_unchanged_stats++)
                  && follow_mode == Follow_name)
                {
                  recheck (&f[i]);
@@ -971,14 +972,11 @@ tail_forever (struct File_spec *f, int nfiles)
              continue;
            }
 
-         /* Size changed.  */
-         ++f[i].n_consecutive_size_changes;
-
          /* Ensure that a file that's unlinked or moved aside, yet always
             growing will be recognized as having been renamed.  */
-         if (follow_mode == Follow_name
-             && (f[i].n_consecutive_size_changes
-                 > max_n_consecutive_size_changes_between_opens))
+         if ((max_n_consecutive_size_changes_between_opens
+              <= f[i].n_consecutive_size_changes++)
+             && follow_mode == Follow_name)
            {
              f[i].n_consecutive_size_changes = 0;
              recheck (&f[i]);