Re: some concern about the fix of " tail: consistently output all data for truncated files"

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 11/08/2016 03:50 AM, Lian, George (Nokia - CN/Hangzhou) wrote:
> We have an issue now for tail a syslog file which stored in a network-based 
> file system.

I'm not sure, but this sounds like a case for

  N=5
  tail -F --max-unchanged-stats="$N"  "$file"

doesn't it?

Have a nice day,
Berny