inotail

[Dave Jones]

On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 01:22:43PM -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:
 > 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.

All syscalls return -ENOSYS if unimplemented.

		Dave

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