>>>>> "MB" == Mark Borghardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
first, please learn to quote properly and not top post. read these:
http://www.btinternet.com/~chiba/sbox/topposters.html
http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/quote.html
http://www.geocities.com/nnqweb/nquote.html
MB> That said, I am wondering why nobody has suggested using select
MB> and sysread. I would have thought that this would have been a
MB> great way to solve the problem. I tried the following code with
MB> no success:
select always returns readable for disk files as they are always readable
so select is meaningless on them. the only way to tail files is to poll
them on a schedule and see if their size has changed (or inode modified,
etc.).
uri
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