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Re: [gpsd-dev] "INSTALL" documentation issue with OS X 10.10 (All BSD's,


From: Frank Nicholas
Subject: Re: [gpsd-dev] "INSTALL" documentation issue with OS X 10.10 (All BSD's, too?)
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 10:14:31 -0500

> On Feb 13, 2015, at 8:04 AM, Greg Troxel <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hal Murray <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> address@hidden said:
>>> Documentation in NetBSD agrees with you on '-f'. 
>> 
>> On Linux:
>> tail -f displays new data that gets appended to the end of a file.
>> tail -F starts over with at the beginning of a new file if the file gets 
>> renamed or reset.
>> 
>> The latter covers watching log files while logrotate or newsyslog decides 
>> it's time for a new log file.
> 
> I thought we were talking about stty, not tail.
> 
> The real question is "What Would POSIX Do?" to misquote the bumper
> sticker.

We were originally talking about stty.



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