hi all, does select work with disk files at all? i think i might have posted this same question to this same list, but that would have been two or more years ago and the archives are still temporarily unavailable.
i want to open a bunch of log files and then basically sit waiting with select until any of them have anything written to them. then i want to process the data and loop back to the select. i've done this before with popen to tail. that's a pain though, for one thing, i don't dare do: "killall tail" on that box :). now i want to do what tail does, but inside my code. it seems thought that select doesnt work with disk files. i've tried with the buffered io functions (fopen, fgets). the select doesn't work, it returns immediately even if no data is waiting to be read. same thing with the unbuffered io functions (open, read, etc). i could poll, i suppose, but that's so inelegant :). i'd really love to be able to use select. tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo gquimpo*hotmail.com tiger*sni*ph http://bopolissimus.sni.ph Public Key: "gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78" The difficult we do today. The impossible takes a little longer. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
