Subject: Re: bug#19760: [bug] "tail -f" with inotify fails to follow a file after a rename()

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 12:35:49 +0100

BTW given that -f was broken for so long (6 years)
it lends more weight to making -f behave like -F by default.

Note POSIX allows (and even implies this),
and openBSD -f behaves like -F for example.

Not something appropriate for coreutils 8.x,
and I'd be 60:40 against changing in a later major release,
but it's worth mentioning.

cheers,
Pádraig.