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Today I released version 0.5 of inotail, the fast tail replacement. This version is just a minor bugfix release, see the changelog for details.

About two months after the last release, I released version 0.4 of inotail, a tail replacement using inotify. As of this version inotail uses buffers of optimal size (depending on the filesystem) for I/O (patch contributed by Folkert van Heusden). See the changelog for all changes. Debian packages should hit the archive soon.

Note: I'm currently working on correct tailing from pipes which would make inotail fully compatible to POSIX tail.

Now back to uni work...

I just released version 0.3 of inotail, a replacement for the tail utility using inotify to speed up the follow mode (the '-f' option). This version doesn't contain new features but fixes for some minor bugs (see the changelog for details. Get the tarball for inotail 0.3 here: http://distanz.ch/inotail/inotail-0.3.tar.bz2

About: inotail is a replacement for the 'tail' program found in the base installation of every Linux/UNIX system. It makes use of the inotify infrastructure in recent versions of the Linux kernel to speed up tailing files in the follow mode (the '-f' option). Standard tail polls the file every second by default while inotail listens to special events sent by the kernel through the inotify API to determine whether a file needs to be reread.