"Evan Klitzke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I checked the source code for tail and they actually poll the file by > using fstat and sleep to check for changes in the file size. This > didn't seem right so I thought about it more and realized I ought to > be using inotify. So I guess I answered my own question.
If it's just one file, inotify is probably overkill. I looked into this recently and ended up just sleeping and trying to read the file (not bothering with stat; just see if you get 0 bytes back from read). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
