On 2009-02-13, Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> wrote:
> David schrieb:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I copied a program from C to track multiple log files. I would like to
>> be able to print a label when a log file is updated. Here is the program;
>
> Don't use threads for the job. On Unix the preferred way is select()'ing
> or poll()'ing multiple file descriptors.
File descriptors associated with regular files always select
true for ready to read, ready to write, and error condi-
tions.
Regular files always poll TRUE for reading and writing.
You have to either sleep or use kevent/completion/...
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