This is the mail archive of the cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com mailing list for the Cygwin project. See the Cygwin home page for more information.
Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]

Re: tail -f <file name> locks <file name>


On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 03:12:47PM -0400, thomas@on.com wrote:
>This has not been the original intention of 'tail -f': This command should
>enable the user
>to watch the contents of a file grow. If this file is locked by the tail
>command, the writing process
>will run on error.

Patches gratefully accepted.

-chris

--
Want to unsubscribe from this list?
Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com