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Bug#388512: ITP: inotail -- inotify enhanced tail



Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@access.unizh.ch>

* Package name    : inotail
  Version         : 0.1
  Upstream Author : Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
* URL             : http://distanz.ch/inotail
* License         : GPL
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : inotify enhanced tail

inotail is a replacement for the 'tail' program found in the base
installation of every Linux/UNIX system. It makes use of the inotify
infrastructure in recent versions of the Linux kernel to speed up
tailing files in the follow mode (the '-f' option). Standard tail polls
the file every second by default while inotail listens to special events
sent by the kernel through the inotify API to determine whether a file
needs to be reread.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-xenon
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=de_CH (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB)

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