bin/75028: [patch] when following multiple files, tail(1) re-prints file names

[Brian Somers]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:56:17 -0500 (EST), Mikhail Teterin <mi at corbulon.video-collage.com> wrote:
> > Synopsis: [patch] when following multiple files, tail(1) re-prints file names
> > 
> > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> > State-Changed-By: brian
> > State-Changed-When: Wed Jan 12 03:53:16 GMT 2005
> > State-Changed-Why: 
> > Fix applied to -current (although the variable removal fixes were already there)
> > I'll MFC in 7 days if there are no objections.
> > 
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=75028
> 
> I think, there should also be a way to suppress the outputting of
> file-names completely. Perhaps, with another option (-H?). For example,
> when watching web-server logs, I rarely care, which of the virtual
> servers log what.
> 
> 	-mi

Isnt' that more a case of just tailing each file as a separate tail
process?

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