Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 10:11:10 -0700 From: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@webserver.get-linux.org> To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kqueue alternative? Message-ID: <20030616171110.GC56734@webserver.get-linux.org> In-Reply-To: <E19RrTD-0006yV-00@chiark.greenend.org.uk> References: <1079.10.0.81.10.1055692530.squirrel@www.mundomateo.com> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030615125423.98988D-100000@fledge.watson.org> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030615125423.98988D-100000@fledge.watson.org> <E19RrTD-0006yV-00@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
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On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:44:15AM +0100 or thereabouts, Tony Finch seemed to write: > 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. Really? `man 2 select' says nothing about that. It just talks about 'file descriptors'. Now if it said 'socket descriptors' or 'non-file file descriptors' I would understand, but I don't think that that statement is implied by the man page. Is there something I'm missing? -- Josh > > Tony. > -- > f.a.n.finch <dot@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ > ST DAVIDS HEAD TO COLWYN BAY, INCLUDING ST GEORGES CHANNEL: VARIABLE 2 OR 3 > BECOMING MAINLY SOUTHWEST TO WEST 2 OR 3, LOCALLY 3 OR 4. FAIR WITH ISOLATED > SHOWERS AND SOME COASTAL MIST PATCHES. GOOD LOCALLY MODERATE OR POOR. SLIGHT.
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