tail symlink with inotify

[Norman Rasmussen]

I noticed that `tail -F log-latest.symlink` doesn't use inotify
(mentioned in the 2013 thread "tail should dereference watched file"
[1])

It would be great if tail supported inotify when given a symlink.
Which it would have to do by watching both the symlink (or multiple
symlinks if there's a chain) and the target (as pointed out by
Bernhard on the thread). Do you think it would be worth doing? (What
are your thoughts 5 years later on?)

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2013-09/msg00029.html

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