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| author | Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivano@gnu.org> | 2009-06-02 08:28:23 +0200 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2009-06-15 18:34:14 +0200 |
| commit | ae494d4be80df2aff50a2ac46fdc0c23de109ea3 (patch) | |
| tree | ca567ba9ae1d870b139778df835707eb1e358ee2 /NEWS | |
| parent | 358aca5fb9cb67c593aa5f1ddf166dbefcf55f0c (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-ae494d4be80df2aff50a2ac46fdc0c23de109ea3.tar.xz | |
tail: use inotify if it is available
* NEWS: Document the new feature.
* m4/jm-macros.m4: Check if inotify is present.
* src/tail.c (tail_forever_inotify): New function.
(main): Use the inotify-based function, if possible.
* tests/Makefile.am: Add new tests for tail.
* tests/test-lib.sh (require_proc_pid_status_, get_process_status_):
New functions.
* tests/tail-2/pid: New file.
* tests/tail-2/wait: New file.
* tests/tail-2/tail-n0f: Refactor code into the test-lib.sh
require_proc_pid_status_ function.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 2 |
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@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ 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. + * Noteworthy changes in release 7.4 (2009-05-07) [stable] |