Turbotail

Posted by Nico Golde in software
Tuesday, November 22. 2005

Today I found Turbotail which is a veeeerrryyyy nice tool.

Normal tail only looks up every specified seconds (default is 1) if the file changed and prints out the output.
Turbotail uses the DNOTIFY-api of the Linux kernel which lets it show the data instantly in (hardly) realtime.

I think it can be interresting to for ii (which will be released in the next days, hopefully on frieday) because there is not
latency if you monitor the out-files with it.

I will also package it for Debian in the next days.

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It would be even nicer if it used the new inotify api as dnotify is going to be superseeded by it.

#1 tklauser on 2005-11-23 14:05 (Reply)

yes you are right. do you know how complex it would be to port it?
thanks

#2 nion (Homepage) on 2005-11-23 20:11 (Reply)

I just took the opportunity to do exactly that. But at first I need some practice in working with inotify and it is a bit difficult as there are no inotify headers in the glibc on recent Linux distributions, so I need to make them myself (no, I won't link against the kernel-headers). As for now, it looks very promising, I'll let you know as soon as I've got a working version.

#3 tklauser on 2005-11-23 20:21 (Reply)

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