Your message dated Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:00:19 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#423886: coreutils: tail very ineffecient
has caused the Debian Bug report #423886,
regarding tail -f should check for inotify on GNU/Linux systems
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Package: coreutils
Version: 5.97-5.3
Severity: wishlist
tail -f uses the traditional polling mechanism.
It would be much more efficient if tail would check for inotfiy
on a GNU/Linux system.
If tail does not find the functionality it could fallback to polling.
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coreutils (7.5-1) unstable; urgency=low
* new upstream version
- tail --follow uses inotify
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