On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:44:15AM +0100 or thereabouts, Tony Finch seemed to write: > Joshua Oreman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
