On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 12:46:22PM -0800, Florin Andrei wrote: > Anybody planning to submit inotail to Extras? > > http://distanz.ch/inotail/ > > Quote: > "inotail is a replacement for the 'tail' program found in the base > installation of every Linux/UNIX system. It makes use of the inotify > infrastructure in recent versions of the Linux kernel to speed up > tailing files in the follow mode (the '-f' option). Standard tail polls > the file every second by default while inotail listens to special events > sent by the kernel through the inotify API to determine whether a file > needs to be reread." I wonder why they chose to reimplement the wheel instead of adding a -i to the tail in coreutils ? Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
