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authorTobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>2006-09-21 13:26:34 +0200
committerTobias Klauser <tklauser@xenon.tklauser.home>2006-09-21 13:26:34 +0200
commit264972b31f676c917da93c702f0205dc9d0dbcf9 (patch)
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Update manpage according to README
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.SH DESCRIPTION
.B inotail
-is a drop-in 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). Currently inotail is not fully compatible
-to neither POSIX or GNU tail but might be in the future. \fINote:\fR inotail
-will not work on systems running kernels without Inotify. To enable Inotify ,
-please set CONFIG_INOTIFY=y in your kernel configuration and recompile it.
+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. \fINote:\fR inotail will not work
+on systems running kernels without Inotify. To enable Inotify , please set
+CONFIG_INOTIFY=y in your kernel configuration and recompile it.
+.PP
+Currently inotail is not fully compatible to neither POSIX or GNU tail but might
+be in the future.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-c \fIN\fR, \fB\-\-bytes\fR=\fIN\fR