Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 05:30:05PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > > 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. Thanks. I've made this change: tail: accept new option: -F, equivalent to `--follow=name --retry', for compatibility with FreeBSD and NetBSD versions of tail. * src/tail.c (usage): Describe new option. (parse_options): Accept it. Patch by Christian Kurz, via Herbert Xu. Index: tail.c =================================================================== RCS file: /fetish/textutils/src/tail.c,v retrieving revision 1.152 retrieving revision 1.153 diff -u -p -u -r1.152 -r1.153 --- tail.c 2001/07/08 21:29:09 1.152 +++ tail.c 2001/09/12 07:27:29 1.153 @@ -250,6 +250,7 @@ With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read st output appended data as the file grows;\n\ -f, --follow, and --follow=descriptor are\n\ equivalent\n\ + -F same as --follow=name --retry\n\ -n, --lines=N output the last N lines, instead of the last %d\n\ --max-unchanged-stats=N\n\ with --follow=name, reopen a FILE which has not\n\ @@ -1365,13 +1366,18 @@ parse_options (int argc, char **argv, count_lines = 1; forever = from_start = print_headers = 0; - while ((c = getopt_long (argc, argv, "c:n:fqs:v", long_options, NULL)) + while ((c = getopt_long (argc, argv, "c:n:fFqs:v", long_options, NULL)) != -1) { switch (c) { case 0: break; + + case 'F': + forever = 1; + follow_mode = Follow_name; + reopen_inaccessible_files = 1; case 'c': case 'n': _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
