Thanks! Your advice is much appreciated. martin
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz <gl...@twistedmatrix.com>wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Cary Hull <cary.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> It would certainly be nice if Twisted supported async file io, but in this >> case wouldn't a ProcessProtocol around 'tail -f' be a good solution as well? >> > > That could work, but there are a few potential issues. 'tail' does > slightly different stuff on different platforms. Maybe you're on Windows > and it isn't available. Maybe it mangles your output (I know that some > coreutils tools try to be encoding-aware, I don't know if 'tail' is one). > Maybe you want to get blocks of bytes off the end rather than lines, etc. > Then you also need to worry about housekeeping for a subprocess, which > always turns out to be a little trickier than you first expect. > > _______________________________________________ > Twisted-Python mailing list > Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com > http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python > >
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