On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 03:34:36PM +0200, Graham Leggett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>> The solution is to simply read from the file, and not first try to use an
>> I/O watcher.
>
> So the io watcher shouldn't be used for files?
No, it makes no sense.
> That came from the man page for "read" on MacOSX, but having had long
> experience with dealing with portable software, just because it says it
> in a man page on one OS doesn't mean it is necessarily true everywhere.
You could read the OS-independent manpage for read (from the SUS), which
os x claims to follow, accoridng to apple :)
> ev_stat is suboptimal for my case (due to the delay),
The delay is only there on operating systems that don't allow implementing
it in other ways (so yes, on OS X there is a delay).
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