Re: inotify back end for tail -f on linux

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> However, my first manual test provoked this surprising diagnostic:
>
>   $ touch k && src/tail -F k &
>   src/tail: cannot watch parent directory of `k': No such file or directory
>
> The following patch fixes that.
> Go ahead and fold it into yours.

Thank you.  Do you want me to write tests for such simple use cases?
It may seem not very helpful but in future it can help to find
regressions as in this case.

Giuseppe