Re: read() does not read new content on FreeBSD/OpenBSD/OSX

oh, I forgot the versions: Mac OS X 10.6.7, python 2.6.1 OpenBSD 4.8, python 2.6.5 FreeBSD 8.0, python 2.6.4 dieter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

read() does not read new content on FreeBSD/OpenBSD/OSX

Hi group, I have a problem while reading from a file on BSD-like systems. I have a writer process which continuously appends data to a file and a reader (a data logger, something like tail -f), which should read and analyse date from the file. It works on Linux, but on BSD-like systems, it only re