I noticed that `tail -F log-latest.symlink` doesn't use inotify (mentioned in the 2013 thread "tail should dereference watched file" [1])
It would be great if tail supported inotify when given a symlink. Which it would have to do by watching both the symlink (or multiple symlinks if there's a chain) and the target (as pointed out by Bernhard on the thread). Do you think it would be worth doing? (What are your thoughts 5 years later on?) [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2013-09/msg00029.html -- - Norman Rasmussen - Email: nor...@rasmussen.co.za - Home page: http://norman.rasmussen.co.za/
