Hi, As far as I understood tailf's advantage over "tail -f" is that it does not access the file when it does not grow. But nowadays coreutils "tail -f" also does not seem to access the file. So do we really need tailf? The point is that I've noticed that our tailf fails to deal with filesystems where inotify is broken. For example it does not work for overlayfs. coreutils tail code looks quite complicated and seems to manage such cases. Is it worth to fix our tailf or better just remove it and use "tail -f"? BTW coreutils tail is much more comfortable. It has many important options. For example watching log files without -F or --retry does not make sense to me (because of logrotate). Last but not least, is anybody using tailf at all? Google does not find much about people who are using this. cu, Rudi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
