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@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ + inotail - inotify enhanced tail +o===============================o + +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 version 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. + +Requirements +------------ +- Linux kernel 2.6.13 or higher with CONFIG_INOTIFY enabled +- Future versions will require a version of the glibc shipping with inotify + support + +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. + +-- Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch> |