FWIW, GNU tail on Linux uses inotify for tail -f: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/src/tail.c
The wikipedia page for inotify lists several python bindings: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify Not much help for non-Linux users, but there it is. Too bad, because inotify is pretty cool. Jason On Nov 21, 2009 11:11 PM, <exar...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote: On 02:43 am, ivo...@gmail.com wrote: > > I'm trying to simply imitate what "tail -f" does, i.e. read... select(), poll(), epoll, etc. all have the problem where they don't support files (in the thing-on-a-filesystem sense) at all. They just indicate the descriptor is readable or writeable all the time, regardless. "tail -f" is implemented by sleeping a little bit and then reading to see if there's anything new. Jean-Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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