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In article <[email protected]>, "Perl
Authors Upload Server" <[email protected]> wrote:

> The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List:
> 
>   modid:       Logfile::Read
>   DSLIP:       bdpO2
>   description: Read log files, resume reads, rotated files
>   userid:      JANPAZ (Jan Pazdziora)


>     When reading log files, you only want to process the line once,
>     while also be able to find new lines that were appended since the
>     last read, and while also recovering (and not losing data) if the
>     log file got rotated. This is what Logfile::Read attempts to do.

How about saying something about those goals in the name? For instance,
there's a POE wheel called "FollowTail" that does both of those, and I
think it's name does a good job distinguishing it from reading a single
file once. :)

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