From 9c6c621c324148b13216cfc9bcb35e81eb151d50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pádraig Brady Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:41:05 +0100 Subject: doc: clarify the tail inotify NEWS * NEWS: Say why inotify was used --- NEWS | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a769cf6f9..619089509 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -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] -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf