Re: inotify back end for tail -f on linux

[Jim Meyering]

Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
...
> The inotify_init () call can fail if the inotify support is not present
> at runtime, and in this case it is a good idea to use polling instead of
> exit immediately.

When inotify_init fails, I'd like to know that,
and that tail is reverting to the "old" polling-based code.