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Re: inotail



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.

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Florin Andrei

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