bug#21265: tail -f: inotify being used on non-regular files

[Assaf Gordon]

tags 21265 wontfix
close 21265
stop

(triaging old bugs)

On 26/08/15 05:19 AM, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> 2015-08-26 03:13:59 +0100, Pádraig Brady:
> [...]
> > The same argument applies that the kernel should return
> > and error when adding a watch on pseudo file systems like /proc?
> > To work around that, we'd have to get real kludgy and see
> > were the files on a "dummy" file system or something.
[...]
> > Though tail -f /proc files in either mode is not that useful,
> > so probably not worrying about that case.
> [...]
>
> All very good points.
>
> Many files in /proc, /sys... can only be read reliably in one read()
> operation anyway, and doing tail -f on them would give you
> garbage even if it worked.

Given the above, and no further comments in 3 years,
I'm closing this bug.

-assaf