[illumos-Developer] [REVIEW] 244: Need replacement for closed /usr/bin/tail and /usr/xpg4/bin/tail

[I. Szczesniak]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Garrett D'Amore <garrett at damore.org> wrote:
> Can we talk about this?
>
> Chris has finished his work and is near to integration already.  Is
> there some compelling reason why the ksh93 version is "better"?

Please clarify what you mean with "better".
The AST tail code is significantly faster than the code from the
webrev Chris posted and faster than GNU tail. It is maintained and
uses the upstream code in unmodified form, which should result in
shorter maintenance cycles. It has much more features, many of them
derived from GNU *and* BSD.

Irek