Sorry, I mistook it. It went fine.
In some programs, they replace a file instead of appending...


2012/2/9 Marcel Laverdet <[email protected]>

> You certainly can do this without reopening the file. I'm using very
> similar code to tail MySQL's binlogs. Are you sure that you're appending to
> the file? Like others mentioned this does not handle reopening the file in
> the case it's removed or whatever. If that is a constraint you will have to
> handle it accordingly.
>
> I'm running the code I posted on your gist on OS X just fine. I'm running
> it on a file and then in another terminal session running "echo hello >>
> file" and then seeing the output in the other terminal. There is a two
> second delay or so.
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Shin Suzuki <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Marcel,
>>
>> Thanks for the sample code.
>> Unfortunately, it didn't work in my environment (Mac OS X and CentOS).
>> Essentially the code you've shown and my code is the same, in that both
>> don't re-open the file.
>> It seems we cannot fetch the added data without re-opening,
>> Considering the overhead of opening the file in each "change" event, just
>> spawning "tail -f" would be better as Matt says.
>> What's difficult is that we cannot know at which line the child process
>> of "tail -f" starts to read when the file is growing.
>>
>>
>> 2012/2/9 Marcel Laverdet <[email protected]>
>>
>>> Matt keeps screaming race condition because conditions stated to not be
>>> handled are not handled.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> That's not really a race, just a condition not covered.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Matt <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> There's a race between when you get the results from stat and re-open
>>>>> the file. You know it's changed, you assume it has grown, so you re-open 
>>>>> at
>>>>> "last-byte-read" position. But what if between that time, the file got
>>>>> truncated to zero, meaning you need to read from the start of the file?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Adam Pritchard <
>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Can you elaborate? I'm pretty new to JS/Node, so maybe I'm not seeing
>>>>>> it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I recognize that the file reading isn't one-to-one with the
>>>>>> notifications (i.e., many rapid file modifications will probably be
>>>>>> processed in a single file read, and then following notifications won't
>>>>>> have an effect until the file grows again), but I don't see that that's a
>>>>>> problem -- the data should still get processed in a timely fashion.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On the other hand... my tests aren't running through successfully on
>>>>>> two of three OSes, so there's certainly something not right...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'd appreciate any bugs or flaws you can point out.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Adam
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Matt <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Still has a race condition in it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Adam Pritchard <
>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I've also been working on a little log-file-following (tail -f)
>>>>>>>> node module.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://github.com/adam-p/text-file-follower/blob/master/lib/index.coffee
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I need it to work on Windows, so it's cross-platform. It works okay
>>>>>>>> already, but I still have some stuff to do.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The behaviour of fs.watch is a bit sketchy. For example...
>>>>>>>> https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/search?q=fs.watch&state=open
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If I didn't need/want to support Windows I'd probably use
>>>>>>>> fs.watchFile.
>>>>>>>>
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