On 23 October 2010 10:10, Marko Vojinovic <vvma...@gmail.com> wrote: > As for the <pid>, my guess is that the process that opens the file for writing > is the only one allowed to actually write to it, since otherwise one can get a > race condition and data might get corrupted. Once that process dies, tail will > die along with it, leaving a clean /tmp/flashfile.flv as a result. At least > that > is my theory. ;-) > > Now, all that is needed is that someone write a script and try it out. I am > not very versatile with extracting <pid> and <file_id> and such stuff, but > otherwise the script should be trivial. :-)
You can try it with the shell function I posted earlier in the thread. Putting your tail command instead of the cp should be a good test. ;) -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
