Perhaps this has already been discussed tail -f polls and is highly inefficient when there exists event notification such as inotify. It would be nice if this could be added in a way that does not break any systems, even if compiled for Linux and the Linux kernel it runs on does not have inotify. If inotify does not work it would fall back to polling.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=423886 There exists a program that tries to do this but it is not fully compatible with GNU tail: http://distanz.ch/inotail/ http://packages.debian.org/sid/inotail http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/i/inotail/inotail_0.5-1/inotail.copyright Here are the in tree docs: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt;h=59a919f16144df84dc6e3934dcdc22c26611a6ea;hb=d848223808c5d21e1b3cea090047e34722c6254b Shawn _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
