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Re: tail --recursive
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: tail --recursive |
Date: |
Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:15:16 +0100 |
Simon Windows <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>>>> I haven't looked at it at all yet,
>>>> but wonder if you've considered using inotify?
>>>> That seems like that mechanism would be much more appropriate,
>>>> when tailing many files in an arbitrary hierarchy.
>
> I have looked at the inotify library as you suggested. I agree it would
> be a useful tool to use in tail as it removes the need to poll files and
> would make a recursive version much more efficient. I can also see there
> has been some discussion of using inotify in coreutils for this purpose.
>
> I think that issue is orthogonal to the recursive option I am proposing.
>
> I'd like the current version of tail to handle directories and follow
> them in a sensible fashion. None of the inotify programs solve this
> problem unless you use them initiate a new tail process for each new file.
>
> If you're willing to consider a recursive option I will be more than
> happy to develop it further to make it robust and help with testing.
As I said already, here,
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-11/msg00068.html
look at iwatch.
Perhaps you haven't seen that message, since your email server,
ipmailmx.internode.on.net, is making the mistake of rejecting
email from me based on a single, erroneous RBL (Trend Micro RBL+).
- tail --recursive, Simon Windows, 2008/11/13
- Re: tail --recursive, Matthew Woehlke, 2008/11/13
- Re: tail --recursive, Simon Windows, 2008/11/13
- Re: tail --recursive, Jim Meyering, 2008/11/13
- Re: tail --recursive, Simon Windows, 2008/11/13
- Re: tail --recursive, Jim Meyering, 2008/11/13
- Re: tail --recursive, Simon Windows, 2008/11/14
- Re: tail --recursive,
Jim Meyering <=
- Re: tail --recursive, Simon Windows, 2008/11/14
- Re: tail --recursive, Jim Meyering, 2008/11/14
- Re: tail --recursive, Matthew Woehlke, 2008/11/14
- Re: tail --recursive, Jim Meyering, 2008/11/15
- Re: tail --recursive, Simon Windows, 2008/11/15