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Re: [SOLVED] tailf vs buster

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On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 11:49:48AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 06:42:27PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> > This just came to my attention - buster lost "tailf" from "util-linux"
> > package. I have no problem defining an appropriate alias, of course.
> > The question is - who should I thank for this?
> 
> The stretch man page says:
> 
> DESCRIPTION
>        tailf is deprecated.  It may have unfixed bugs and will be removed from
>        util-linux in March 2017.  Nowadays it's safe  to  use  tail  -f  (from
>        coreutils), in contrast to what the original documentation below says.
> 

Thanks. Same manpage:

> The latest inotify-based implementation was written by Karel Zak
> (kzak@redhat.com).

Figures. RedHat deserves whatever IBM will do to them.

Reco

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tailf vs buster Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-07-11 17:50 +0200
  Re: tailf vs buster Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-11 18:00 +0200
    Re: [SOLVED] tailf vs buster Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-07-11 18:00 +0200
      Re: [SOLVED] tailf vs buster <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-07-12 10:00 +0200
        Re: [SOLVED] tailf vs buster Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-07-12 10:40 +0200
          Re: [SOLVED] tailf vs buster <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-07-12 10:40 +0200
          Re: [SOLVED] tailf vs buster Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-12 14:50 +0200
            Re: [SOLVED] tailf vs buster Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-07-12 15:10 +0200
              Re: [SOLVED] tailf vs buster Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2019-07-13 14:30 +0200
                Re: [SOLVED] tailf vs buster Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-07-14 08:50 +0200

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