inotail
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Fri Dec 29 21:04:12 UTC 2006
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
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