src/usr.bin/tail, branch release/4.0.0_cvs

This commit was manufactured by cvs2svn to create tag

2000-03-20T08:47:53+00:00

'RELENG_4_0_0_RELEASE'.

This commit was manufactured to restore the state of the 4.0-RELEASE image.
Releases prior to 5.3-RELEASE are omitting the secure/ and crypto/ subdirs.

$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$

1999-08-28T01:08:13+00:00

Add $Id$, to make it simpler for members of the translation teams to

1999-07-12T20:24:20+00:00

track.

The $Id$ line is normally at the bottom of the main comment block in the
man page, separated from the rest of the manpage by an empty comment,
like so;

     .\"    $Id$
     .\"

If the immediately preceding comment is a @(#) format ID marker than the
the $Id$ will line up underneath it with no intervening blank lines.
Otherwise, an additional blank line is inserted.

Approved by:            bde

Clean up some ambiguous nested if/elses.

1999-07-04T17:26:16+00:00

Fixed printf format errors.

1998-07-06T21:01:54+00:00

Add a new -F flag which is a superset of -f. It will cause tail to

1998-04-06T16:13:49+00:00

stat() the file being followed and do a close/reopen if the file has been
renamed and/or rotated.  This is damn useful for leaving running on files
in /var/log when newsyslog(8) rotates them.

Change select(0, NULL, ...) to usleep()

1997-12-12T11:47:28+00:00

Fix a misleading comment. Rename a variable to make more sense.

1997-10-11T07:32:43+00:00

Pointed out by by:	 bde

Fix a comment.

1997-09-15T08:20:27+00:00

Submitted by:		Mikael Karpberg

In these days, waiting one full second for more to appear is far too long.

1997-09-14T19:02:13+00:00

Let's try 250ms.