Bug#438333: tail -f should check for inotify on GNU/Linux systems

[Michelle Konzack]

This Bug is a duplicate of #423886.

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    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant



Am 2007-08-16 12:16:29, schrieb Dr. Markus Waldeck:
> 
> Package: coreutils
> Version: 5.97-5.3
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> tail -f uses the traditional polling mechanism.
> It would be much more efficient if tail would check for inotfiy
> on a GNU/Linux system.
> If tail does not find the functionality it could fallback to polling.
> 
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