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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2004-09-28 06:34:22 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2004-09-28 06:34:22 +0000 |
| commit | ca4c25cccbd62f6eea4e1b69b4f9e396cf1bc1a8 (patch) | |
| tree | bbf2501aa8c0f16afc9b1f1bf90f572ac9a12534 /src | |
| parent | 7b020a373999af34fd0152febf2a1233abf20561 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-ca4c25cccbd62f6eea4e1b69b4f9e396cf1bc1a8.tar.xz | |
(usage): Clarify: --retry works only with --follow=name.
Reported by Nik A. Melchior in http://bugs.debian.org/273781.
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/tail.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/tail.c b/src/tail.c index 2210ec4d7..fba74ecc3 100644 --- a/src/tail.c +++ b/src/tail.c @@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ enum static struct option const long_options[] = { - /* --allow-missing is deprecated; use --retry instead */ + /* FIXME: remove in 2005 --allow-missing is deprecated; use --retry instead */ {"allow-missing", no_argument, NULL, ALLOW_MISSING_OPTION}, {"bytes", required_argument, NULL, 'c'}, {"follow", optional_argument, NULL, LONG_FOLLOW_OPTION}, @@ -236,7 +236,8 @@ Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.\n\ fputs (_("\ --retry keep trying to open a file even if it is\n\ inaccessible when tail starts or if it becomes\n\ - inaccessible later -- useful only with -f\n\ + inaccessible later; useful when following by name,\n\ + i.e., with --follow=name\n\ -c, --bytes=N output the last N bytes\n\ "), stdout); fputs (_("\ |