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Fix tail -f.
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Authored by markj on Dec 6 2019, 8:08 PM.
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rS355470: Fix tail -f in capability mode.
Summary

We were not adding CAP_EVENT to input file capabilities, so kevent()
always failed. tail implements a fallback mode to poll the file in this
case, so it still "works," but not when kern.trap_enotcap=1.

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