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  1. Flume (READ-ONLY)
  2. FLUME-148

text source and tail source are incompatible with unix named pipes

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          • Type: Bug
          • Status: Open
          • Priority: Major
          • Resolution: Unresolved
          • Affects Version/s: v0.9.0, v0.9.1
          • Fix Version/s: None
          • Component/s: 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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                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

                Task - A task that needs to be done. FLUME-179 Recipe for hooking log4j to flume

                • Major - Major loss of function.
                • Resolved

                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

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                      Reporter:
                      jon Jonathan Hsieh
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