Re: inotify back end for tail -f on linux

[Jim Meyering]

Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
> 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.

No test is too small or too "obvious" to add ;-)

Adding this simple test would be great.
Thanks!