Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 19:27:54 -0400 From: Matthew Hagerty <mhagerty@voyager.net> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: To determine if a file has grown? Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20010827185351.01ba3aa8@pop.voyager.net>
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Greetings, Is there a fast and/or efficient way to determine if a file size has changed without reopening the file every time? I'm writing a program that needs to open a file and watch it to see when data gets written to the file (from an external source or another part of the same program), then read the data to process it. I was looking at stat() but I've read that it is a high overhead function. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Matthew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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