Sounds like a job for a pipe to me.

sas


> On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 5:54 PM Pierre Fichaud <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I must continuously monitor ("read") a Unix file that contains
> > diagnostics. I open the file, parse the records and possibly produce
> > output. Once I've read all the records, I need to wait (or be blocked)
> > until more data arrives. Then I process the new records. But I want to
> > know when the writer has closed the file. Then I stop. Regards, Pierre.
>

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