Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 04:18:04 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Cc: oremanj@www.get-linux.org Subject: Re: kqueue alternative? Message-ID: <3EEDA76C.43795D89@mindspring.com> References: <1079.10.0.81.10.1055692530.squirrel@www.mundomateo.com> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030615125423.98988D-100000@fledge.watson.org> <E19RrTD-0006yV-00@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
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Tony Finch wrote: > Joshua Oreman <oremanj@webserver.get-linux.org> wrote: > >On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Matthew Hagerty wrote: > >> > >> I'm writing a little application that needs to watch a file that another > >> process is writing to, think 'tail -F'. > > > >I would say, use select(2). > >Is there a reason this wouldn't work? > > Select doesn't work with files. The current "tail -f" uses kqueue. The prior "tail -f" used to open the file, and fstat() it in a 1 second sleep() loop, looking for the file to get larger. So your "alternative to kqueue" is to sleep loop and fstat. -- Terry
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