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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2009-06-25 14:41:05 +0100 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2009-06-25 14:50:05 +0100 |
| commit | 9c6c621c324148b13216cfc9bcb35e81eb151d50 (patch) | |
| tree | 9acf4c4ddf825a3f6390fff71dc6a9c990dfa1ab | |
| parent | 2232b4d08fdc8ff3ae8e7aa1fa28c8315c41d9ad (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-9c6c621c324148b13216cfc9bcb35e81eb151d50.tar.xz | |
doc: clarify the tail inotify NEWS
* NEWS: Say why inotify was used
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 3 |
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@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- sort accepts a new option, --human-numeric-sort (-h): sort numbers while honoring human readable suffixes like KiB and MB etc. - tail uses inotify when possible. + tail --follow now uses inotify when possible, to be more responsive + to file changes and more efficient when monitoring many files. * Noteworthy changes in release 7.4 (2009-05-07) [stable] |