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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2004-07-23 22:11:49 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2004-07-23 22:11:49 +0000 |
| commit | c8ab5c1358080d79ea12946ebc3d4fccba6f8670 (patch) | |
| tree | b2d7b9d15df39e204bd411b86502b7cac9793849 | |
| parent | 2ebcff3337cd18ad56779887fef0895799a29ebe (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-c8ab5c1358080d79ea12946ebc3d4fccba6f8670.tar.xz | |
(tail invocation): "size has remained the same"
-> "file has not changed", which is more accurate for fifos.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 6f93e10dc..b0dfa57cb 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -2509,7 +2509,7 @@ will print a warning if this is the case. @opindex --max-unchanged-stats When tailing a file by name, if there have been @var{n} (default n=@value{DEFAULT_MAX_N_UNCHANGED_STATS_BETWEEN_OPENS}) consecutive -iterations for which the size has remained the same, then +iterations for which the file has not changed, then @code{open}/@code{fstat} the file to determine if that file name is still associated with the same device/inode-number pair as before. When following a log file that is rotated, this is approximately the |