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authorTobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>2006-11-15 12:59:35 +0100
committerTobias Klauser <tklauser@xenon.tklauser.home>2006-11-15 12:59:35 +0100
commit636e916d6b3e2a83a30311e035cbf0a3a866187a (patch)
tree0de40a136bb64b56d791c4b314b645c633005e57
parent260c84692cd730a8c057188c0df0ba830a92b918 (diff)
Minor documentation changes
-rw-r--r--README7
-rw-r--r--inotail.14
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/README b/README
index bb15369..7c13988 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -18,11 +18,12 @@ Requirements
License
-------
-inotail is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2.
-You can find the full text in the file LICENSE in the source tree of inotail.
+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 v2.
+GNU General Public License version 2.
-- Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
diff --git a/inotail.1 b/inotail.1
index 9145dec..2c19ac3 100644
--- a/inotail.1
+++ b/inotail.1
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
.pc
.TH INOTAIL 1 "2006-08-13" "" "Inotify enhanced tail"
.SH NAME
-inotail \- A fast and light version of tail using inotify
+inotail \- A fast and lightweight version of tail using inotify
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B inotail
[OPTION]... [FILE]...
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ 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 a kernel without inotify. To enable inotify, please set
-CONFIG_INOTIFY=y in your kernel configuration and recompile it.
+CONFIG_INOTIFY=y in your Linux kernel configuration and recompile it.
.PP
Currently inotail is not fully compatible to neither POSIX or GNU tail but might
be in the future.