On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 01:22:43PM -0800, Florin Andrei wrote: > Dave Jones wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 12:46:22PM -0800, Florin Andrei wrote: > > > Anybody planning to submit inotail to Extras? > > > > > > http://distanz.ch/inotail/ > > > > I wonder why they chose to reimplement the wheel instead of adding > > a -i to the tail in coreutils ? > > Is there a way to detect if the inotify capability exists? If yes, then > even that command-line switch won't be necessary, just let tail > autodetect the capability and use it if it exists. All syscalls return -ENOSYS if unimplemented. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
