* Matthew Hagerty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010827 18:28] wrote:
> 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.
use kqueue.
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