tail & DNOTIFY

Folkert van Heusden <[email protected]> Thu, 5 Aug 2004 21:55:04 +0200 (CEST)

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.textutils.bugs
Message-ID	<Pine.LNX.4.33.0408052019150.15277-100000@muur.intranet.vanheusden.com>

Hi,

The linux kernel has a DNOTIFY interface since 2.4.19. This enables you to
suspend tail untill something really changed instead of polling every
second.
Maybe that's a nice addition?


Folkert van Heusden

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