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@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ + inotail - inotify enhanced tail +o===============================o + +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. + +Currently inotail is not fully compatible to neither POSIX or GNU tail but might +be in the future. + +Requirements +------------ +- Linux kernel 2.6.13 or higher with CONFIG_INOTIFY enabled +- Standard C Library (tested with GNU libc but might work with others too) + +License +------- +inotail is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 +or later. You can find the full text in the file LICENSE in the source tree of +inotail. + +The files inotify.h and inotify-syscalls.h were taken from the source tree of +the Linux kernel and slightly altered. Both are licensed under the terms of the +GNU General Public License version 2. + +-- Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch> |