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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]