Joshua Haberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any reason why "tail -f" doesn't use select or poll, instead > of sleep?
Mostly inertia, I'd guess. The whole area used to be a portability minefield. These days programs should use pselect if available, in preference to either 'select' or 'poll'. Perhaps 'tail' could be rewritten to use 'pselect' if available, falling back on sleep otherwise; that would tend to avoid big chunks of the minefield. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
