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Diffstat (limited to 'debian/control')
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/control | 13 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index a95e48c..939b439 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -12,9 +12,10 @@ Package: inotail Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Description: tail replacement using inotify - 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. + inotail is a replacement for the 'tail' program which is used to output the + last portions of a file. 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). Ancient versions of tail poll the file every second by + default while inotail (and tail from the GNU coreutils as of version 7.5) + listens to special events sent by the kernel through the inotify API to + determine whether a file needs to be reread. |