On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 5:05 AM, Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]> wrote:

> There is no (native) way to implement tail(1)-like behavior except by
> polling the file for changes one way or the other (but then again,
> that's how most tail(1) utilities are implemented.)  See
> fs.watchFile(), it fs.fstats() the file every |interval| milliseconds
> and notifies you when something changes.
>

Or just use fs-ext's fs.seek(fd, 0, 1) to reset the EOF flag and keep
fs.read()ing the fd until EOF every [interval] milliseconds.

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