[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
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.