On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Matthew Hagerty wrote: > I'm writing a little application that needs to watch a file that another > process is writing to, think 'tail -F'. kqueue and kevent are going to > do it for me on *BSD, but I'm also trying to support *cough* linux and > other UN*X types OSes. > > >From what I can find on google, the linux community seems very opposed > to kqueue and has not yet implemented it (they say: blah blah blah, > aio_*, blah blah balh.) What alternatives do I have with OSes that > don't support kqueue? I'd really hate to poll with stat(), but do I > have any other choices?
I was recently told about a library named libevent from Niels Provos, which abstracts a variety of underlying event mechanisms behind a common API. You can learn a bit more about it here: http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/ It doesn't appear to support /dev/poll yet, but the web page suggests such support is planned. If it's not already a port, we should create one. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Associates Laboratories _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"