Bug#423886: Bug#438333: tail -f should check for inotify on GNU/Linux systems

2007-08-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-08-22 08:40:27, schrieb Dr. Markus Waldeck: > The description of your observation is not very precise. > What did you use before? > Was it sarge with kernel 2.6.8? > What did you do? > Did upgrade to Debian etch with kernel 2.6.18? I have installe 2.4.32 on my Mail- and File-Servers, which

Bug#423886: Bug#438333: tail -f should check for inotify on GNU/Linux systems

2007-08-22 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 08:40:27AM +0200, Dr. Markus Waldeck wrote: Please propagate the wish to the upstream. All relevant information are present. Upstream monitors the Debian bug logs, and I'm sure would welcome a patch implementing this behavior. Mike Stone -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#423886: Bug#438333: tail -f should check for inotify on GNU/Linux systems

2007-08-21 Thread Dr. Markus Waldeck
Hi Michelle, > This Bug is a duplicate of #423886. I checked bug report 423886. During my search in the internet I found out that the quality of famd and dnotify is not considered very high. The SGI famd also has further problems like opening an TCP port and so on. > If you need a better versio