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@@ -17,13 +17,17 @@ inotail \- A fast and light version of tail using inotify [OPTION]... [FILE]... .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 |