From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 09:03:15 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: add comment
X-Git-Tag: TEXTUTILS-1_22o~19
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e3a15bed3c9b88c4033eb15e947e52a82518ea04;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

add comment
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diff --git a/src/tail.c b/src/tail.c
index d8d8287e24..04d29a24c2 100644
--- a/src/tail.c
+++ b/src/tail.c
@@ -117,7 +117,8 @@ struct File_spec
 
 };
 
-/* FIXME: describe */
+/* Keep trying to open a file even if it is inaccessible when tail starts
+   or if it becomes inaccessible later -- useful only with -f.  */
 static int reopen_inaccessible_files;
 
 /* If nonzero, interpret the numeric argument as the number of lines.