Don't remove support for --max-consecutive-size-changes just yet...

diff --git a/src/tail.c b/src/tail.c
index d63b357..4bcfa92 100644 (file)
--- a/src/tail.c
+++ b/src/tail.c
@@ -201,7 +201,11 @@ enum
 {
   RETRY_OPTION = CHAR_MAX + 1,
   MAX_UNCHANGED_STATS_OPTION,
+
+  /* FIXME: remove this in 2001, unless someone can show a good
+     reason to keep it.  */
   MAX_CONSECUTIVE_SIZE_CHANGES_OPTION,
+
   PID_OPTION,
   LONG_FOLLOW_OPTION,
 };
@@ -215,6 +219,8 @@ static struct option const long_options[] =
   {"follow", optional_argument, NULL, LONG_FOLLOW_OPTION},
   {"lines", required_argument, NULL, 'n'},
   {"max-unchanged-stats", required_argument, NULL, MAX_UNCHANGED_STATS_OPTION},
+  {"max-consecutive-size-changes", required_argument, NULL,
+   MAX_CONSECUTIVE_SIZE_CHANGES_OPTION},
   {"pid", required_argument, NULL, PID_OPTION},
   {"quiet", no_argument, NULL, 'q'},
   {"retry", no_argument, NULL, RETRY_OPTION},
@@ -1417,6 +1423,18 @@ parse_options (int argc, char **argv,
            }
          break;
 
+       case MAX_CONSECUTIVE_SIZE_CHANGES_OPTION:
+         /* --max-consecutive-size-changes=N */
+         if (xstrtoul (optarg, NULL, 10,
+                       &max_n_consecutive_size_changes_between_opens, "")
+             != LONGINT_OK)
+           {
+             error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0,
+                  _("%s: invalid maximum number of consecutive size changes"),
+                    optarg);
+           }
+         break;
+
        case PID_OPTION:
          {
            strtol_error s_err;