Jim Meyering wrote: >>> I haven't looked at it at all yet, >>> but wonder if you've considered using inotify? >>> That seems like that mechanism would be much more appropriate, >>> when tailing many files in an arbitrary hierarchy.
I have looked at the inotify library as you suggested. I agree it would be a useful tool to use in tail as it removes the need to poll files and would make a recursive version much more efficient. I can also see there has been some discussion of using inotify in coreutils for this purpose. I think that issue is orthogonal to the recursive option I am proposing. I'd like the current version of tail to handle directories and follow them in a sensible fashion. None of the inotify programs solve this problem unless you use them initiate a new tail process for each new file. If you're willing to consider a recursive option I will be more than happy to develop it further to make it robust and help with testing. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
