Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 10:29:02 -0700 From: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@webserver.get-linux.org> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kqueue alternative? Message-ID: <20030615172902.GB4882@webserver.get-linux.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030615125423.98988D-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <1079.10.0.81.10.1055692530.squirrel@www.mundomateo.com> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030615125423.98988D-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Matthew Hagerty wrote: > 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? I would say, use select(2). Is there a reason this wouldn't work? -- Josh
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