bug in tail?

[Richard Mawson]

Hi -

tail --follow=name -f <file> 

doesn't seem to follow the file if the inode changes, but

tail -f <file> --follow=name

does... a source of some confusion for me for a while until I realised the 
difference between the ones that worked and the ones that didn't... I guess 
this may have been found already - anyway you know its there for sure now...

regards,

Richard Mawson
Mawson IT Services


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tail (textutils) 2.0.14
Written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, Ian Lance Taylor, and Jim Meyering.

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