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@@ -32,6 +32,13 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- [you might say this was introduced in coreutils-7.5, along with inotify support, but the new magic numbers weren't in the usual places then.] +** Changes in behavior + + tail -f now uses polling (not inotify) when any of its file arguments + resides on a file system of unknown type. In addition, for each such + argument, tail -f prints a warning with the FS type magic number and a + request to report it to the bug-reporting address. + * Noteworthy changes in release 8.14 (2011-10-12) [stable] |