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| author | Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch> | 2009-01-25 21:22:27 +0100 |
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| committer | Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch> | 2009-01-25 21:22:27 +0100 |
| commit | c5b1ca29cbcb6b61de1acd35102e7a53291de540 (patch) | |
| tree | 1c5d405ad0906de14e651e8fb69d9e1d6f922fb6 /README | |
| parent | 6d0e6a9fb055d92e571c9fd6267b18ab14fdd746 (diff) | |
README: Mention POSIX/GNU compatibility
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| -rw-r--r-- | README | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ versions of the Linux kernel to speed up tailing files in the follow mode (the listens to special events sent by the kernel through the inotify API to determine whether a file needs to be reread. +inotail is compatible to POSIX and GNU tail. See section "Compatibility & +options" for more information. + Requirements ------------ - Linux kernel 2.6.13 or higher with CONFIG_INOTIFY enabled @@ -32,7 +35,7 @@ inotail binary to /usr/ and the manpage to /usr/share/man/ respectively type: Compatibility & options ----------------------- -inotail is fully option compatible with current POSIX and GNU tail, though the +inotail is fully compatible with current POSIX and GNU tail, though the obsolescent options present in previous versions of those are not present (e.g. inotail +/-<num>). The following options are present in inotail for compatibility reasons (e.g. to use inotail as a tail replacement in scripts) but |