From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 19:11:22 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (parse_options): Change warning to say that --retry
X-Git-Tag: v6.0~992
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f59d4713e5d43c77c7089fad97b8e9bbda4d6938;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(parse_options): Change warning to say that --retry
is useful `mainly' (not `only') when following by name.
Reported here: http://bugs.debian.org/273781
---

diff --git a/src/tail.c b/src/tail.c
index 75fe9779d6..52e0bab86d 100644
--- a/src/tail.c
+++ b/src/tail.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* tail -- output the last part of file(s)
-   Copyright (C) 1989, 90, 91, 1995-2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   Copyright (C) 1989, 90, 91, 1995-2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -1554,7 +1554,7 @@ parse_options (int argc, char **argv,
     }
 
   if (reopen_inaccessible_files && follow_mode != Follow_name)
-    error (0, 0, _("warning: --retry is useful only when following by name"));
+    error (0, 0, _("warning: --retry is useful mainly when following by name"));
 
   if (pid && !forever)
     error (0, 0,