"tail -f" fails on named pipes

[Ian! D. Allen]

Re: GNU tail: tail (textutils) 2.0.17
 
I wanted to use tail -f on several named pipes.  It doesn't work - it
keeps reading from the first pipe it opens waiting for an EOF that
will never happen.

Looking at the code, I'm thinking the changes to make it work might
not be difficult.  Any interest?

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