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 http://florin.myip.org/