On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 11:04:10AM +0100, Andreas Fuchs wrote: > > However, I would say that if the program dies so frequently that it needs a > > wrapper like this, it should probably be fixed. > > tail -f of a logfile into a secured less. To search and scroll > backwards, one must kill the tail, which then needs to be restarted. > > If less could be fixed such that it waits for both input streams with > select(2), I think that problem could be solved.
Both input streams, meaning the pipe and the tty? Why do you need to use tail, anyhow? less has a mode to select() and watch the end of a file, invoked with the 'F' command. I don't think that it's currently possible for less to enter this mode with a command-line flag, but I've often wished that it did, so maybe this feature should be added to less. -- - mdz