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authorKarel Zak2007-12-07 01:56:06 +0100
committerKarel Zak2007-12-17 10:06:20 +0100
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tailf: inotify based reimplementation
This patch: - clean up tailf(1) code - remove stupid "for() { malloc() }" array allocation in the tailf() function - add inotify(7) support Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/text-utils/tailf.1 b/text-utils/tailf.1
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@@ -49,9 +49,11 @@ output the last
.I N
lines, instead of the last 10.
.SH AUTHOR
-This program was written by Rik Faith (faith@acm.org) and may be freely
+This program was originally written by Rik Faith (faith@acm.org) and may be freely
distributed under the terms of the X11/MIT License. There is ABSOLUTELY
NO WARRANTY for this program.
+
+The latest inotify based implementation was written by Karel Zak (kzak@redhat.com).
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR tail "(1), " less "(1)"
.SH AVAILABILITY