Why does running the "tail -f" command print the message "tail: inotify cannot be used, reverting to polling" while opening a symlink?
Issue
- Running the "tail -f" command on a symlink prints the "tail: inotify cannot be used, reverting to polling" message.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 (onwards)
- coreutils-8.4-31.el6.x86_64
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