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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 34d9ff031..76fdce165 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -2821,6 +2821,7 @@ Historical implementations of @command{tail} have required that @var{number} be an integer. However, GNU @command{tail} accepts an arbitrary floating point number (using a period before any fractional digits). +When @command{tail} uses inotify, this polling-related option is ignored. @itemx --pid=@var{pid} @opindex --pid @@ -2855,7 +2856,8 @@ still associated with the same device/inode-number pair as before. When following a log file that is rotated, this is approximately the number of seconds between when tail prints the last pre-rotation lines and when it prints the lines that have accumulated in the new log file. -This option is meaningful only when following by name. +This option is meaningful only when polling (i.e., without inotify) +and when following by name. @itemx -n @var{k} @itemx --lines=@var{k} |