If this method was called for a file that didn't exist, we attempted to
first `build` it. But if the file wasn't writeable, such as a symlink
pointing to an unmounted filesystem, the method would just hang and
eventually timeout.

Further, this was entirely pointless since we were creating a file and
then shelling out to `tail`, eventually returning an empty Array. Now we
just skip building it and return the empty Array straight away.