RE: Tail -f and select - Again

Thanks for the prompt reply.

I did a bit more testing and think I found an alternate and I think better
solution.

Instead of just opening the file I:

$pid = open(DATIN,"tail +0 -f $datafile);

and then instead of closing the file I:

system("kill $pid");

I tested it and it works.

Are there any pitfalls with this strategy?

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Jochen Stenzel [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 10:34 AM
To: Mark Borghardt
Cc: '[email protected]'
Subject: Re: Tail -f and select - Again


Hello, Mark,

> What I want to do is read data from a growing file (tail -f) until a
special
> record arrives, at which point I would like to close the file and reopen
> another one repeating the process.

there is a module called Event::File which implements tail -f the Event way.

                            Jochen