> Bit of bummer because getting "tail" to monitor IIS was the VERY reason I > downloaded and installed www.CyGWin.com . I'm wondering: > > 1) When might someone fix this?
It will get fixed as soon as you submit a patch for it! Seriously. All of the cygwin people work on a volunteer basis. We all have lives/jobs to contend with, and contribute to cygwin when we can. If you have a feature you must have, implement it. It's that simple. >(extend "tail" to deal with the IIS log > tricks, and thus making a more powerful "tail") tail doesn't display so is > surely stripping out pre-allocated buffer space at the end (perhaps because, > in MS-DOS, it's preceded by a ^Z), but not going back to see if that space > it skipped has changed, or just not noticing any changes because , as Robert > suggested, it's probably just looking at the size of the file. What it > probably should be looking at first is the mod-date, and when that changes, > continue outputting it's output at the point where it found no more valid > text, NOT necessarily the end of the file. This minor redesign could then > be folded back into the Gnu sources, for a more powerful tail for everyone. I agree, it sounds simple. I eagerly await your changes. cheers, -Matt Smith cygwin textutils maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
