From c8ab5c1358080d79ea12946ebc3d4fccba6f8670 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 22:11:49 +0000 Subject: (tail invocation): "size has remained the same" -> "file has not changed", which is more accurate for fifos. --- doc/coreutils.texi | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 6f93e10dc..b0dfa57cb 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -2509,7 +2509,7 @@ will print a warning if this is the case. @opindex --max-unchanged-stats When tailing a file by name, if there have been @var{n} (default n=@value{DEFAULT_MAX_N_UNCHANGED_STATS_BETWEEN_OPENS}) consecutive -iterations for which the size has remained the same, then +iterations for which the file has not changed, then @code{open}/@code{fstat} the file to determine if that file name is still associated with the same device/inode-number pair as before. When following a log file that is rotated, this is approximately the -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2