Re: tail aborts while following by name if using inotify

[Jim Meyering]

Jim Meyering wrote:
...
> +# Wait up to 2s for the buggy tail to die,
> +# or for the "tail: `1' has appeared;  following end of new file" output
> +dead=0
> +for i in $(seq 10); do
> +  kill -0 $pid || { dead=1; break; }
> +  grep 'has appeared;' out > /dev/null && break
> +done

I've re-added the sleep above, so that the comment is still accurate:

for i in $(seq 10); do
  kill -0 $pid || { dead=1; break; }
  grep 'has appeared;' out > /dev/null && break
  sleep .2
done