Re: [SOLVED] tailf vs buster

[Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net>]

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 11:49:48AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 06:42:27PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> > This just came to my attention - buster lost "tailf" from "util-linux"
> > package. I have no problem defining an appropriate alias, of course.
> > The question is - who should I thank for this?
> 
> The stretch man page says:
> 
> DESCRIPTION
>        tailf is deprecated.  It may have unfixed bugs and will be removed from
>        util-linux in March 2017.  Nowadays it's safe  to  use  tail  -f  (from
>        coreutils), in contrast to what the original documentation below says.
> 

Thanks. Same manpage:

> The latest inotify-based implementation was written by Karel Zak
> (kzak@redhat.com).

Figures. RedHat deserves whatever IBM will do to them.

Reco