On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 15:38 -0400, Robert Love wrote: > On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 12:22 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > I noticed that select() is not working on real files. Could inotify > > be used to fix select()? > > Select the system call? It should work fine. ;-) > > Who is confused? > > Robert Love Sounds interesting. tail -f could use it. Instead of sleep 1, seek to current position, read to eof; just select() for read on the file and sleep in select() until someone else writes to that file. I've never tried doing that. It might work, for all I know. -- Zan Lynx <[email protected]>
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