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From: Valentin Nechayev <netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua>
To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
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Subject: Re: tail
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 Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 01:59:19, mwm (Mike Meyer) wrote about "RE: tail": 

> Yes, there is. If you're monitoring a programm that creates a lot of
> files in a previously empty directory (for example, extracting a tar
> file into it), then:
> 
> 	tail -f targetdir 
> 
> will do the trick, though it would be better to clean up the output
> (cat -v, maybe).

And its output is related to flat format of directory in specific
file system. You will provide decrypting module for each file system
for each platform, won't you?

`man kevent' saves you.

> Deciding for the users what actions are an error and which aren't is a
> *really* nasty habit.

Let's allow them 'rm -rf /'

> Windows does it all to often, which is one of
> the reasons Windows sucks. Linux - at least some distributions - seems
> to have picked up the habit from Windows. Oh well.

Windows have no problems such as '/tmp race conditions'.


/netch

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