Re: tail broken (?!) and devices not activating

[Tim Tebbit <ttebbit@gmail.com>]

Celejar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm seeing some really weird problems on my system.  I don't know if
> they're at all related, but I'll report them both in the same email, in
> case they are.
> 
> 1) tail -f stops working - I see the tail of the file, but it fails to
> refresh when content is added to the file.  What on earth could be
> causing this?  This is tail from coreutils - nothing fancy, no inotify
> dependency, just simple polling of the file!

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> 
> Anyone have any ideas of where I can look to try to track this stuff
> down?
> 
> Celejar

I also noticed this the other day. tail -F seems to work as I expected
tail -f to.

I'm using sid, 2.6.30-2

$ tail --version
tail (GNU coreutils) 7.5