Hi, When i tried to use inotify subsystem to replace sleep() and stat() for tailf, it didn't work for all cases. This is because the file is opened in tailf() but is not closed(). Those patches are to fix this bug in tailf.c and other places. Li Zefan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html