coreutils 8.25-2 seems to have the same problem. Sample:
% ps -ef | grep tail
harri 3815 3783 0 Aug30 pts/3 00:00:00 tail --retry
--max-unchanged-stats=5 -f /var/log/messages
harri 11756 11708 0 08:00 pts/4 00:00:00 grep tail
% lsof -p 3815
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
tail 3815 harri cwd DIR 8,4 20480 4456449 /home/harri
tail 3815 harri rtd DIR 8,3 4096 2 /
tail 3815 harri txt REG 8,3 64232 15185 /usr/bin/tail
tail 3815 harri mem REG 8,3 1697504 1054034
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.23.so
tail 3815 harri mem REG 8,3 153288 1054030
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.23.so
tail 3815 harri 0u CHR 136,3 0t0 6 /dev/pts/3
tail 3815 harri 1u CHR 136,3 0t0 6 /dev/pts/3
tail 3815 harri 2u CHR 136,3 0t0 6 /dev/pts/3
tail 3815 harri 3r REG 8,3 159279 140486 /var/log/messages.1
tail 3815 harri 4r a_inode 0,11 0 4381 inotify
% ls -alrt /var/log/messages*
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 2057 Aug 15 07:54 /var/log/messages.4.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 1762 Aug 21 08:03 /var/log/messages.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 29000 Aug 29 07:53 /var/log/messages.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 159279 Sep 4 08:00 /var/log/messages.1
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 2881 Sep 5 07:52 /var/log/messages
% dpkg -l coreutils
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture
Description
+++-===================================-======================-======================-============================================================================
ii coreutils 8.25-2 amd64
GNU core utilities
Regards
Harri
