On Feb 11, 10:36 pm, "Hendrik van Rooyen"
wrote:
> "birdsong" wrote:
>
> 8<--- select not blocking on empty file stuff -
>
> > Any help on what I'm missing would be appreciated.
>
> Why do you expect it to block?
> It is ready to read, to return end of file.
>
I expected it
"birdsong" wrote:
8<--- select not blocking on empty file stuff -
> Any help on what I'm missing would be appreciated.
Why do you expect it to block?
It is ready to read, to return end of file.
- Hendrik
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On Feb 11, 7:47 pm, "Rhodri James"
wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:01:16 -, birdsong
> wrote:
>
> > So I guess I didn't have a complete understanding of poll, I thought
> > it returned file descriptors that had registered an event that the
> > user asked to watch for. In my case, select.PO
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Rhodri James
wrote:
> If you want to
> do it in Python, the only thing that springs to mind is
> periodically checking the size of the file and reading more
> when that changes. You'll need to be very careful to keep
> what size you think the file is in sync with
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:01:16 -, birdsong
wrote:
So I guess I didn't have a complete understanding of poll, I thought
it returned file descriptors that had registered an event that the
user asked to watch for. In my case, select.POLLIN
ConstantMeaning
POLLIN There is data to read
So I guess I didn't have a complete understanding of poll, I thought
it returned file descriptors that had registered an event that the
user asked to watch for. In my case, select.POLLIN
ConstantMeaning
POLLIN There is data to read
...there ins't any data to be read. The file is readabl
On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:44:53 -0800 (PST), birdsong
wrote:
I'm pretty sure I've exhausted all searches and read all the forums
Google will turn up related to this issue.
I touch an empty file in a sh shell, fire up the python shell, open
the file for reading(tried all buffering options), regist
I'm pretty sure I've exhausted all searches and read all the forums
Google will turn up related to this issue.
I touch an empty file in a sh shell, fire up the python shell, open
the file for reading(tried all buffering options), register it with a
poll object for select.POLLIN and call poll(), bu
