[systemd-devel] [PATCH] journalctl: --follow with --since behaviour

[Andrej Manduch]

journalctl will print not only 10 lines but all relevant when --since is
in use

--- >8 ---

Hi,

When I tryed to run journalctl with --follow and --since arguments it
behaved very strangely.
First It prints logs from what I specified in --since argument, then
printed 10 lines (as is default in --follow) and when app put something
new in to log journalctl printed everithing from the last printed line.

How to reproduce:
1. run: journalctl -m --since 14:00 --follow
Then you'll see 10 lines of logs since 14:00. After that wait until some
app add something in the journal or just run `systemd-cat echo test`
2. After that journalctl will print every single line since 14:00 and will
follow as expected.

As long as --since and --follow will eventually print all relevant
lines, I seen no reason why not to print them right away and not after
first new message in journal.

Relevant bugzillas:
        https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71546
        https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64291
---
 src/journal/journalctl.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/journal/journalctl.c b/src/journal/journalctl.c
index b168d1e..904880b 100644
--- a/src/journal/journalctl.c
+++ b/src/journal/journalctl.c
@@ -712,7 +712,7 @@ static int parse_argv(int argc, char *argv[]) {
                         assert_not_reached("Unhandled option");
                 }
 
-        if (arg_follow && !arg_no_tail && arg_lines == ARG_LINES_DEFAULT)
+        if (arg_follow && !arg_no_tail && !arg_since && arg_lines == ARG_LINES_DEFAULT)
                 arg_lines = 10;
 
         if (!!arg_directory + !!arg_file + !!arg_machine > 1) {
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