inotail

Florin Andrei florin at andrei.myip.org
Fri Dec 29 21:22:43 UTC 2006


Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 12:46:22PM -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:
>  > Anybody planning to submit inotail to Extras?
>  > 
>  > http://distanz.ch/inotail/
> 
> I wonder why they chose to reimplement the wheel instead of adding
> a -i to the tail in coreutils ?

Is there a way to detect if the inotify capability exists? If yes, then 
even that command-line switch won't be necessary, just let tail 
autodetect the capability and use it if it exists.

-- 
Florin Andrei

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