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Fixed tail --follow=name continuing to tail a symlink target, unlike GNU tail. Closes #10328 #10397

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CodSpeed HQ / CodSpeed Performance Analysis succeeded Jan 20, 2026 in 0s

Performance Gate Passed

⚡ 1 improved benchmark
✅ 282 untouched benchmarks
⏩ 38 skipped benchmarks1

Performance Changes

Mode Benchmark BASE HEAD Efficiency
⚡ Memory cp_large_file[16] 120.4 KB 115.3 KB +4.4%

Comparing trypsynth:fix-tail-symlinks (6904ee8) with main (0f7a7c4)

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  1. 38 benchmarks were skipped, so the baseline results were used instead. If they were deleted from the codebase, click here and archive them to remove them from the performance reports. ↩

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