On 07/06/17 08:04, Jim Meyering wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 12:23 AM, Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> wrote:
>> +  tail -f with --pid no longer ignores some inotify events.
>> +  [bug introduced with inotify support added in coreutils-7.5]
> 
> Nice patch.
> Might be worth clarifying that
> 
>   tail -f --pid=PID
> 
> no longer ignores events delivered just prior to PID death detection.

Note the events may be ignored completely upon PID death,
or be delayed until future events on the monitored files.
I'll clarify

thanks,
Pádraig

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