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Date:      Sun, 15 Jun 2003 11:55:30 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Matthew Hagerty" <matthew@mundomateo.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   kqueue alternative?
Message-ID:  <1079.10.0.81.10.1055692530.squirrel@www.mundomateo.com>

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Greetings,

I'm writing a little application that needs to watch a file that another
process is writing to, think 'tail -F'.  kqueue and kevent are going to do
it for me on *BSD, but I'm also trying to support *cough* linux and other
UN*X types OSes.

>From what I can find on google, the linux community seems very opposed to
kqueue and has not yet implemented it (they say: blah blah blah, aio_*,
blah blah balh.)  What alternatives do I have with OSes that don't support
kqueue?  I'd really hate to poll with stat(), but do I have any other
choices?

Thanks,
Matthew



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