I stumbled over this readme sentence: > tail -f now uses polling (not inotify) when any of its file arguments > resides on a file system of unknown type.
So I asked myself what happens if all file system types of all arguments are known but one is "remote"? strace gave the answer: in that case, tail uses polling for all arguments although it could use inotify for at least some of them. Is there a technical reason to do so, or is this just because the implementation would be more complicated? Have a nice day, Berny
