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| author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2009-12-30 14:23:45 +0100 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2009-12-31 09:42:52 +0100 |
| commit | f428e548e52d76a5ed729a2cba9a05f93dad40d9 (patch) | |
| tree | 51ca71ed06a731c97a4cbd593c9e195a008bf9b7 /doc | |
| parent | 7e0c2b9a59a610454875340e315d93448fffdb38 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-f428e548e52d76a5ed729a2cba9a05f93dad40d9.tar.xz | |
doc: update tail's documentation to allow for new -F semantics
* src/tail.c (usage): Reword tail -F description, so that it no
longer mentions details specific to the non-inotify implementation.
Also, join diagnostic strings (while staying under the 509-byte limit)
to ease formatting of translations. The latter was prompted by
a report from Stéphane Raimbault.
* doc/coreutils.texi (tail invocation): Update description here, too.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index e097c257d..5e43b1705 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -2770,8 +2770,10 @@ If you'd like to continue to track the end of a growing file even after it has been unlinked, use @option{--follow=descriptor}. This is the default behavior, but it is not useful if you're tracking a log file that may be rotated (removed or renamed, then reopened). In that case, use -@option{--follow=name} to track the named file by reopening it periodically -to see if it has been removed and recreated by some other program. +@option{--follow=name} to track the named file, perhaps by reopening it +periodically to see if it has been removed and recreated by some other program. +Note that the inotify-based implementation handles this case without +the need for any periodic reopening. No matter which method you use, if the tracked file is determined to have shrunk, @command{tail} prints a message saying the file has been truncated |