24 Oct
2017
24 Oct
'17
07:12
On Okt 24 2017, "Carlos E. R."
I started using tailf many years ago because some documentation said that "tail -f" caused hard disk activity even when there was nothing new to display, and "tailf" did not.
Has this changed?
coreutils' tail now uses inotify when possible. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, schwab@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org