Once upon a time, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > On Thursday, December 06, 2007 1:38 pm Bill Nottingham wrote: > > 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... That's already a coreutils extension (e.g. not in SUS, not on other OSes I spot-checked), so I don't think anythink would hurt by just changing -f behavior (maybe if -s is specified automatically fall-back to the old behavior). -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
