On 09/15/2013 09:58 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > 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.
True. Perhaps we should revert to polling for symlinks? cheers, Pádraig.
