On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 10:07:43PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This surely is a basic problem. The question is if there is a
> solution? What I'm looking for is to get a read event (poll=>'r') ONLY
> if there is something to read, not in case of EOF (which could be
> matched by poll=>'e'). Ideally, this solution would result in a lower
> load than the example above.
Actually, I believe the correct solution is to stat the file
periodically. File::Tail uses both stat and sysseek. GNU textutils'
tail does something similar.
This question has come up before. It probably makes sense to include
demo/tail-f in the Event tarball. Any volunteers?
The other piece that would be nice is integration with IPC::Open2/3. I
might have to do this myself. :-)
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