On 09/14/2013 03:42 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> So resolving the link will change existing behaviour
> (with or without inotify), where the symlink is pointed
> to a new file during the tail -F run.
> 
> I.E. `tail -F latest.log` will no longer work as expected
> when latest.log is a symlink which is adjusted like with:
>   ln -nsf new.log latest.log
> 
> So it seems like we'll need to add both the symlink and
> target to the inotify list perhaps.

Hmm, this sounds like it could get complicated as well:
the watch for the symlink target would have to be removed
again if the symlink is changed.

Have a nice day,
Berny

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