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From: | Assaf Gordon |
Subject: | bug#9266: tail -F does not follow through symlinks |
Date: | Tue, 30 Oct 2018 02:50:52 -0600 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 |
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
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