On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:32, Jim Meyering <[email protected]> wrote: > Michael Stone wrote: >> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 09:06:10AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: >>>I don't understand your comment in a bug report. Being more >>>responsive seems like a good thing to me and good expected behavior. >>>Could you say a few words about why you are filing a bug report on >>>tail being more responsive? >> >> I can imagine that if someone is manually reviewing the output, they >> may wish to have a certain interval to inspect new data before it is >> scrolled by additional data. > > In that case, use the deliberately undocumented ---disable-inotify > option that was introduced in coreutils-7.6. > With it, tail will sleep between iterations, as it did before.
I actually thought the --- in ---disable-inotify was a typo. First time I see such. Anyways, thanks for the tip, it works now. -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
