On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM Bill Sommerfeld via illumos-discuss < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/22/25 07:28, Peter Tribble wrote: > > tail really shouldn't need to keep the file descriptor > > open for every file > Try "tail -f" with multiple file arguments; it tracks all the files (and > thus has reason to keep all of them open). > But, as Udo said originally, without -f it doesn't need to keep them open at all. Unless I misread the man page, this feature isn't documented. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------ illumos: illumos-discuss Permalink: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T74fba5bf347a7c5f-M38acfebe3950d5298632d085 Delivery options: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
