Package: coreutils
Version: 5.97-5.3
Severity: wishlist

tail -f uses the traditional polling mechanism.
It would be much more efficient if tail would check for inotfiy
on a GNU/Linux system.
If tail does not find the functionality it could fallback to polling.

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