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 would say, use select(2). Is there a reason this wouldn't work? -- Josh _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"