Re: improving support issues with "tail -f / unrecognized file systems"

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 12/04/2017 02:08 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Sat, Dec 2, 2017 at 8:31 AM, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> > However, given the work you've already done, I suspect it would be
> > worthwhile to follow through.
>
> OK,
> Attached an updated version (also in
> https://files.housegordon.org/tmp/cu-fs.html ).
> If there are no objections, I'll add it to the website (in
> https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/filesystems.html ).

Nice work, thanks!

Minor issue:

> Running tail -f on unrecognized file systems will silently
> fallback to using the inotify interface.
______________^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

it's the other way round:

  "fallback from trying to use the inotify interface to polling."

Have a nice day,
Berny