On 00-12-26 Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 12:26:10PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > > On 00-12-25 Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > It would be nice if less included a feature to close and reopen the current > > > file. Then this would not be necessary. > > > > Well, this is a feature that tail on FreeBSD has. If you start it with > > -F, it will tail you the current file like our tail -f. But if know the > > logfile will be rotated, it will notice this and reopen the new current > > one and tail this one. This is a feature that I really miss in GNU tail. > It sounds pretty easy to implement; just stat() and compare the inode number. > Is this how the FreeBSD tail does it? Why not write a patch for GNU tail? I'm not sure how FreeBSD tail handle this exactly, as I didn't look at it's code till now. But after having read the Mail from Ethan I think about patching tail to have an option -F which combines --follow=name and --retry. :) Ciao Christian -- Debian Developer and Quality Assurance Team Member 1024/26CC7853 31E6 A8CA 68FC 284F 7D16 63EC A9E6 67FF 26CC 7853
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