inotail

[Dave Jones]

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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