From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 19:10:39 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (tail invocation): Say that --retry
X-Git-Tag: v6.0~994
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f78f184a1489681f15a6f735f4321ab2e4b0cc15;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(tail invocation): Say that --retry
is useful `mainly' (not `only') when following by name.
---

diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index a27fe3e584..156331032f 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -2477,7 +2477,8 @@ will keep trying until it becomes accessible again.
 
 @itemx --retry
 @opindex --retry
-This option is meaningful only when following by name.
+This option is useful mainly when following by name (i.e., with
+@option{--follow=name}).
 Without this option, when tail encounters a file that doesn't
 exist or is otherwise inaccessible, it reports that fact and
 never checks it again.