No problem in core-utils 8.13:
$ sudo sh -c 'echo 10 > /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches'
$ touch /tmp/hello
$ tail -f /tmp/hello 
tail: inotify resources exhausted
tail: inotify cannot be used, reverting to polling

** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Fix Released

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Title:
  tail -f gives misleading error message when inotify limit is reached

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