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[Folkert van Heusden]

> > While investigating why logfiles did not come in more "snappier" in
> > multitail, I found out that 'tail -f' does a sleep of 1 second and then
> > an stat on that file. So it wakes up every second. This can be replaced
> > with code using inotify (or via FAM (written by SGI)) causing it to
> > sleep longer. I once implemented this myself using dnotify but got fed
> > up getting it to work (some difficult bugs) and to migrate it to
> > inotify. So maybe someone else would like to look at it? Turbotail can
> > be found here: http://www.vanheusden.com/turbotail/
> inotail does what you want. http://distanz.ch/inotail/

It cannot be used as a drop-in replacement unfortunately.
E.g. it doesn't understand commandlines like:
tail -2lf logfile.log


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