inotail - inotify enhanced tail
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inotail is a replacement for the 'tail' program found in the base installation of every Linux/UNIX system. It makes use of the inotify infrastructure in recent versions of the Linux kernel to speed up tailing files in the follow mode (the '-f' option). Standard tail polls the file every second by default while inotail listens to special events sent by the kernel through the inotify API to determine whether a file needs to be reread.
Currently inotail is not fully compatible to neither POSIX or GNU tail but might be in the future.
Requirements
- Linux kernel 2.6.13 or higher with CONFIG_INOTIFY enabled
- Standard C Library (tested with GNU libc but might work with others too)
License
inotail is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or later. You can find the full text in the file LICENSE in the source tree of inotail.
The files inotify.h and inotify-syscalls.h were taken from the source tree of the Linux kernel and slightly altered. Both are licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2.
-- Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>