Jason Sewall wrote: > 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
Some other operating systems have similar facilities, e.g. FSEvents on OS X. -- Matt Nordhoff -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
