From: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:41:05 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: doc: clarify the tail inotify NEWS
X-Git-Tag: v7.5~82
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9c6c621c324148b13216cfc9bcb35e81eb151d50;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

doc: clarify the tail inotify NEWS

* NEWS: Say why inotify was used
---

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a769cf6f98..6190895094 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   sort accepts a new option, --human-numeric-sort (-h): sort numbers
   while honoring human readable suffixes like KiB and MB etc.
 
-  tail uses inotify when possible.
+  tail --follow now uses inotify when possible, to be more responsive
+  to file changes and more efficient when monitoring many files.
 
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release 7.4 (2009-05-07) [stable]