Re: source code

[Steve Ward]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Michael Williamson <
address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I do not have a bug to report. I have a question.
>
> Where is the source code for the program "tail".
> I cannot find a "tail.c" on Fedora or openSuSE.
>
> (I want to find out how it knows that a file has been
>  truncated, for example when using
>
>      # tail -f filename
>
>  Does it use the select() system call?)
>
> Thanks,
> -Mike
>
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"Does it use the select() system call?"

The 'strace' utility is useful for this.