Re: address@hidden: Bug#80541: [Patch] GNU tail does now support option -F/--follow-forever]

[Herbert Xu]

On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 05:30:05PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Herbert Xu <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> | Full details are available at
> |     http://bugs.debian.org/80541
> |
> | In that thread, Christian Kurz also noted that FreeBSD's tail already
> | supports a -F option whose behaviour is almost identical to this proposed
> | option.  The same is true in NetBSD.
> 
> So it's somehow different?

It's only cosmetic so it's probably not particularly important that we
switch to their behaviour.  The manual page for NetBSD's tail can be found
at
        http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/netbsd/tail.1

> Thanks for the patch.

The credit should go to Christian Kurz <address@hidden>.

> If you feel like working on this a little more, it'd be nice also to
> update the usage function (--help output, and hence the man page)
> and doc/textutils.texi.

Christian, would you like to do this?
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