On Thursday, December 06, 2007 1:38 pm Bill Nottingham wrote: > Colin Walters (walters@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 21:49 +0100, Karel Zak wrote: > > > coreutils = portability; inotify = linux (>= 2.6.13) > > > > We have SELinux support in coreutils, I don't really see why an inotify > > patch would be a problem. > > > > Having a separate program just because there's a different > > implementation detail is silly. > > Is there any reason the user should *care* about the implementation > of tail -f? Well, the manpage says -f is affected by the sleep argument, so it's conceivable that there are scripts depending on that behavior... -w (for watch) may be a good name for a new flag. Jesse -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
