In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Nagle wrote: >> On Unix a quick shortcut would be to simply read the output of 'tail - >> f <file>' command... > > "tail -f" just checks the file size once a second. It's not doing > anything exciting.
That's not actually always true these days. *BSD, at least, use 'kqueue' to avoid busy-wait on "tail -f". -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
