Re: tail patch - allows fractional seconds with -s

[Jim Meyering]

Matt Rickard <address@hidden> wrote:
> I have modified the GNU textutils tail.c to allow for fractional seconds
> with the -s option.  e.g. "tail -f -s 1.325 filename", rather than only
> whole number, as per the FIXME in the current tail.c code.  The diff
> follows.

Thanks for the patch.
That has been done already.
Here's the latest test release:

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/coreutils-4.5.3.tar.gz
  (coreutils is the union of fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils)