Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Full details are available at | http://bugs.debian.org/80541 | | In that thread, Christian Kurz also noted that FreeBSD's tail already | supports a -F option whose behaviour is almost identical to this proposed | option. The same is true in NetBSD. So it's somehow different? If you describe how it's different, maybe we can arrange to make it just like the *BSD versions of tail. Thanks for the patch. If you feel like working on this a little more, it'd be nice also to update the usage function (--help output, and hence the man page) and doc/textutils.texi. | -- | Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) | Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ | PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt | From: Christian Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Subject: Bug#80541: [Patch] GNU tail does now support option -F/--follow-forever | To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 17:45:49 +0100 | Reply-To: Christian Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Resent-From: Christian Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Package: textutils | Version: 2.0-3 | Severity: wishlist | | Hi, | | after the discussion on debian-devel about the behaviour of tail to endlessly | tail a logfile, Ethan Benson told me about the options --follow=name and | --retry to get this behaviour. As I'm a bit lazy and don't want to type this | long options regulary, I created a patch for tail to support -F and | --follow-forever to generate this behaviour. You will find this patch at the | end of the mail. I hope that you include it in our tail and send it also to the | upstream maintainers. Thanks. | | Christian | | -- System Information | Debian Release: woody | Architecture: i386 | Kernel: Linux seteuid 2.4.0-test9 #1 Sun Oct 29 18:10:04 CET 2000 i586 | | Versions of packages textutils depends on: | ii libc6 2.2-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an | | -- Patch: | diff -uNr textutils-2.0.old/src/tail.c textutils-2.0/src/tail.c | --- textutils-2.0.old/src/tail.c Thu Aug 5 16:38:02 1999 | +++ textutils-2.0/src/tail.c Tue Dec 26 17:33:25 2000 | @@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ | {"allow-missing", no_argument, NULL, CHAR_MAX + 1}, | {"bytes", required_argument, NULL, 'c'}, | {"follow", optional_argument, NULL, 'f'}, | + {"follow-forever", optional_argument, NULL, 'F'}, | {"lines", required_argument, NULL, 'n'}, | {"max-unchanged-stats", required_argument, NULL, CHAR_MAX + 2}, | {"max-consecutive-size-changes", required_argument, NULL, CHAR_MAX + 3}, | @@ -1311,7 +1312,7 @@ | count_lines = 1; | forever = from_start = print_headers = 0; | | - while ((c = getopt_long (argc, argv, "c:n:f::qs:v", long_options, NULL)) | + while ((c = getopt_long (argc, argv, "c:n:f:F::qs:v", long_options, NULL)) | != -1) | { | switch (c) | @@ -1357,6 +1358,11 @@ | follow_mode = XARGMATCH ("--follow", optarg, | follow_mode_string, follow_mode_map); | break; | + | + case 'F': | + forever = 1; | + follow_mode = Follow_name; | + reopen_inaccessible_files =1; | | case CHAR_MAX + 1: | reopen_inaccessible_files = 1; | | ---------- _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
