tailf, really needed?

[Ruediger Meier <sweet_f_a@gmx.de>]

Hi,

As far as I understood tailf's advantage over "tail -f" is that it does 
not access the file when it does not grow. But nowadays 
coreutils "tail -f" also does not seem to access the file. So do we 
really need tailf?

The point is that I've noticed that our tailf fails to deal with 
filesystems where inotify is broken. For example it does not work for 
overlayfs. coreutils tail code looks quite complicated and seems to 
manage such cases. Is it worth to fix our tailf or better just remove 
it and use "tail -f"?

BTW coreutils tail is much more comfortable. It has many important 
options. For example watching log files without -F or --retry does not 
make sense to me (because of logrotate).

Last but not least, is anybody using tailf at all? Google does not find 
much about people who are using this.

cu,
Rudi