Bopolissimus Platypus wrote:
hi all,

does select work with disk files at all? now i want to do what tail does, but inside my code.

i could poll, i suppose, but that's so inelegant :).  i'd really love to
be able to use select.

Nothing wrong with polling. tail(1) is implemented with a polling interval of 1 second.


Brian

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