tags 9266 notabug
close 9266
stop
(triaging old bugs)
On 2011-08-09 10:28 a.m., Jim Meyering wrote:
Bart Vanhaute wrote:
When I use tail -F to follow a file that is a symlink to another file,
and that second file gets replaced, tail no longer follows the new
file. I am not sure if this scenario is actually supported, but the
current behaviour is unexpected to me.
Thank you for the report.
That is indeed a difference in behavior from
the way tail works without inotify support.
If you want the old behavior (though there is no guarantee this
option will be around forever -- it's deliberately not documented),
use tail's ---disable-inotify option. Note the three leading '-'s.
with no further comments in 7 years, I'm closing this bug.
-assaf
