Re: tail patch - allows fractional seconds with -s

Jim Meyering <[email protected]> Mon, 09 Dec 2002 13:14:39 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.textutils.bugs
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Matt Rickard <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have modified the GNU textutils tail.c to allow for fractional seconds
> with the -s option.  e.g. "tail -f -s 1.325 filename", rather than only
> whole number, as per the FIXME in the current tail.c code.  The diff
> follows.

Thanks for the patch.
That has been done already.
Here's the latest test release:

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/coreutils-4.5.3.tar.gz
  (coreutils is the union of fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils)