From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 08:51:15 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (tail invocation): In --sleep-interval=NUMBER,
X-Git-Tag: v4.5.2~171
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=626d26baaa8b4b60bfc011fad49636d2b4a488e9;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(tail invocation): In --sleep-interval=NUMBER,
NUMBER may now be a floating point number.
---

diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index b35f5f3639..142769cc00 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -2185,11 +2185,13 @@ 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.
 
-@itemx --sleep-interval=@var{n}
+@itemx --sleep-interval=@var{number}
 @opindex --sleep-interval
-Change the number of seconds to wait between iterations (the default is 1).
+Change the number of seconds to wait between iterations (the default is 1.0).
 During one iteration, every specified file is checked to see if it has
-changed size.
+Historical implementations of @command{tail} have required that
+@var{number} be an integer.  However, GNU @command{tail} accepts
+an arbitrary floating point number.
 
 @itemx --pid=@var{pid}
 @opindex --pid