Re: EOF on a watched handle

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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