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@@ -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 |