When I use tail -F to follow a file that is a symlink to another file, and that second file gets replaced, tail no longer follows the new file. I am not sure if this scenario is actually supported, but the current behaviour is unexpected to me.
Detailed scenario to reproduce: in one terminal: $ ln -s f a $ touch f $ tail -F a in another terminal: $ mv f f.0 $ echo 'hello' > f The output in terminal one will show tail: `a' has become inaccessible: No such file or directory but it will not show the 'hello' message. I am using coreutils version 8.5 on debian sid (linux kernel version 3.0.0), but I noticed the same behaviour in coreutils version 8.9 on opensuse (linux kernel version 2.6.37). greetings, Bart.
