Jim Meyering wrote on 12/23/2011 07:11 PM:
Pádraig Brady wrote:
...
My original goal was to warn, for unknown file system types,
that the type is unknown (suggesting to report it), and that
tail -f is resorting to the use of polling.
Oh right, warn about unknown.
That would make sense.
Here's a proposed patch:
[...]
Subject: [PATCH] tail: with -f, use polling when a file is on an FS of
unknown type
[...]
thanks for that. Definitely a good thing (including the more explicit
table of local/remote fs types and the idea of printing a message for
unknown fs types to show people an easy way to contribute to the table).
Best regards,
Sven
