On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:41:24 -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote: > 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... So an inotify patch could be automatically disabled if -s is given. In that case use the old behaviour. > -w (for watch) may be a good name for a new flag. I don't think there's much point adding it as a new flag since it wouldn't get used, thus nullifying the benefit. I agree with the others, much better to integrate it into coreutils tail than provide another version. Cheers, Martin, -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
