Re: inotify back end for tail -f on linux

2009-06-02 Thread Jim Meyering
Giuseppe Scrivano wrote: Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net writes: If we add inotify support, I'd like it to work for both tail-by-FD and tail-by-name. You can watch the parent directory for e.g., rename and creation events. Log rotation is so common, that it'd be a shame not to be able to

FYI, savannah's coreutils.git is live again

2009-06-02 Thread Jim Meyering
Thanks a lot to all of the Savannah/FSF admins, and especially to Sylvain Beucler for all the work they've done over the last four days to recover from multiple disk failures. The coreutils repository is once again live. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list

README-prereq update

2009-06-02 Thread Matěj Cepl
With Fedora 11 and Fedora 8 long time obsolete, I think update of README-prereq is due. Suggested patch is attached. Matěj Cepl diff --git a/README-prereq b/README-prereq index e199816..5dbc78f 100644 --- a/README-prereq +++ b/README-prereq @@ -4,32 +4,24 @@ getting the prerequisites for

build+doc changes

2009-06-02 Thread Jim Meyering
automake's silent-rules options (AM_V_GEN) is slowly taking over... I've just pushed the following four change sets, as well as the four chroot-related ones I posted a few days ago: build (man/): use automake's new $(AM_V_GEN) variable build: make generated man/*.1 files read-only

Re: README-prereq update

2009-06-02 Thread Pádraig Brady
Matěj Cepl wrote: With Fedora 11 and Fedora 8 long time obsolete, I think update of README-prereq is due. Suggested patch is attached. Well the idea of that file was not to present how to build on the latest and greatest, but to present various methods available to get prerequisites. cheers,

Re: README-prereq update

2009-06-02 Thread Matěj Cepl
Pádraig Brady píše v Út 02. 06. 2009 v 16:15 +0100: Well the idea of that file was not to present how to build on the latest and greatest, but to present various methods available to get prerequisites. hmm, OK, except that the advice there is misleading ... if following the steps there I won't

Re: README-prereq update

2009-06-02 Thread C de-Avillez
On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 18:31 +0200, Matěj Cepl wrote: Pádraig Brady píše v Út 02. 06. 2009 v 16:15 +0100: Well the idea of that file was not to present how to build on the latest and greatest, but to present various methods available to get prerequisites. hmm, OK, except that the advice

Re: inotify back end for tail -f on linux

2009-06-02 Thread Giuseppe Scrivano
Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net writes: A few suggestions: Thank you for all your suggestions, I'll keep them in mind. I used your modified patch as my starting point. I fixed the segfault problem and I added a new test case. Regards, Giuseppe From 159dad5939b3853789d9c3c5f30ed92d74812d10

Re: README-prereq update

2009-06-02 Thread Pádraig Brady
Matěj Cepl wrote: Pádraig Brady píše v Út 02. 06. 2009 v 16:15 +0100: Well the idea of that file was not to present how to build on the latest and greatest, but to present various methods available to get prerequisites. hmm, OK, except that the advice there is misleading ... if following

Re: README-prereq update

2009-06-02 Thread Pádraig Brady
Pádraig Brady wrote: Matěj Cepl wrote: But, yes not a big deal, and one should probably be able to deal with prerequisites without help. I wouldn't say that at all. README-prereq should be as accurate as possible. I'll update the automake info... I just pushed this: