Tony Finch wrote: > Joshua Oreman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Matthew Hagerty wrote: > >> > >> I'm writing a little application that needs to watch a file that another > >> process is writing to, think 'tail -F'. > > > >I would say, use select(2). > >Is there a reason this wouldn't work? > > Select doesn't work with files.
The current "tail -f" uses kqueue. The prior "tail -f" used to open the file, and fstat() it in a 1 second sleep() loop, looking for the file to get larger. So your "alternative to kqueue" is to sleep loop and fstat. -- Terry _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
