On 3/26/06, Joshua Haberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any reason why "tail -f" doesn't use select or poll, instead > of sleep?
Yes. Plain files are always ready for reading, even if they are at EOF. That means that select(), poll() and epoll() will not tell you if data has been appended to the file. James. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
