GNU bug report logs - #19760
[bug] "tail -f" with inotify fails to follow a file after a rename()

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 22:05:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #22 received at 19760 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>, 
 Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas <at> gmail.com>, 19760 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19760: [bug] "tail -f" with inotify fails to follow a file
 after a rename()
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.
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