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  • File redirection tends to use block-based buffering by default (see setbuf(3)) which might make a tail problematical. Commented Apr 26, 2017 at 18:14
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    Also this doesn't help with the question, which was about how to view the output of an already running process, not how to redirect stdout for a new process. Commented Apr 26, 2017 at 18:19