kqueue alternative?

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

Joshua Oreman wrote:
> 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


Either select(2) or poll(2) should work.



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