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Sylvestre Ledru cca2b19b4e tail: only set the winapi dep on Windows
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src tail: add fixes to pass "gnu/tests/tail-2/tail-c.sh" from GNU's test suite 2021-09-08 13:10:19 +02:00
Cargo.toml tail: only set the winapi dep on Windows 2021-09-13 18:15:49 +02:00
README.md tail: handle - as an alias for stdin 2021-08-01 17:20:24 -04:00

README.md

Notes / ToDO

  • Rudimentary tail implementation.

Missing features

Flags with features

  • --max-unchanged-stats : with --follow=name, reopen a FILE which has not changed size after N (default 5) iterations to see if it has been unlinked or renamed (this is the usual case of rotated log files). With inotify, this option is rarely useful.
  • --retry : keep trying to open a file even when it is or becomes inaccessible; useful when follow‐ing by name, i.e., with --follow=name

Others

  • The current implementation doesn't follow stdin in non-unix platforms

Possible optimizations

  • Don't read the whole file if not using -f and input is regular file. Read in chunks from the end going backwards, reading each individual chunk forward.