hello all,
i've got some log file monitoring programs which currently use
popen ("tail -f <filename>","r"). for several reasons i'd like to
switch to using select(...). this is not working for me though. i've
used select(...) successfully elsewhere, in socket code, and i
don't see why it's not working here. is there something special
about disk files and select that i'm missing?
i'm aware of problems involving log rotation and getting stuck
monitoring old inodes when logging is happening in newly
allocated inodes. i can deal with that. i'm just wondering if
there's any particular reason why select on disk files won't
work.
i realize that i could use swatch and similar programs but i prefer
to write my own programs for this. i don't need the generality
of swatch and family.
i've looked at the tail source code and while i've considered that
approach, i'd prefer to use select(...) or poll(....) {not tried poll yet}
to the read and sleep loop that tail uses.
thanks for any pointers.
tiger
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