Re: [PATCH] tail should dereference watched file

[Pádraig Brady]

On 09/16/2013 11:11 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 09/15/2013 10:43 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>> On 09/15/2013 08:58 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>> True. Perhaps we should revert to polling for symlinks?
>>
>> That seems to be the safest way, yes.
> 
> Though we'd have to be careful to handle the case
> where a file was replaced with a symlink.

Hopefully the attached fixes up the common case of this,
and diagnose the edge case where a (missing) file appears
as a symlink, during inotify processing.

thanks,
Pádraig.

tail-F-symlinks.patch
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