Thanks. I will take a look.

Doru


On 6 Apr 2012, at 17:32, David T. Lewis wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 03:21:33AM -0700, drush66 wrote:
>> It kind of depends on the OS, but all of them let you subscribe to events on
>> the files in some way. So you would subscribe with os to notify you when
>> some file is changed in some way, keep some internal house keeping
>> information like position up to which you have displayed info, verify that
>> file has indeed changed, read and display new stuff, update internal info.
>> 
>> In essence nothing substantially complicated, but windows and unix interface
>> differs, and at least windows (never investigated unix api in more detail)
>> requires you to dance a bit before you get some results.
>> 
>> Such pieces of code is also often used by text editors to notify user that
>> the file in editor has been changed from the outside. (maybe moose already
>> has something like that?)
>> 
>> Davorin Rusevljan
> 
> On unix/linux/osx you can probably do this with AioPlugin. The OSProcess
> unit tests provide examples in AioEventHandlerTestCase. The example in
> AioEventHandlerTestCase>>testFileReadableEvent is a good place to start.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 

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