inotify-aware tail replacement
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Thu Dec 6 21:38:11 UTC 2007
Colin Walters (walters at redhat.com) said:
> On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 21:49 +0100, Karel Zak wrote:
>
> > coreutils = portability; inotify = linux (>= 2.6.13)
>
> We have SELinux support in coreutils, I don't really see why an inotify
> patch would be a problem.
>
> Having a separate program just because there's a different
> implementation detail is silly.
Is there any reason the user should *care* about the implementation
of tail -f?
Bill
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