kqueue alternative?

[Joshua Oreman]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:44:15AM +0100 or thereabouts, Tony Finch seemed to write:
> Joshua Oreman <oremanj at webserver.get-linux.org> 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'.
> >
> >I would say, use select(2).
> >Is there a reason this wouldn't work?
> 
> Select doesn't work with files.

Really? `man 2 select' says nothing about that. It just talks about
'file descriptors'. Now if it said 'socket descriptors' or 'non-file
file descriptors' I would understand, but I don't think that that statement
is implied by the man page. Is there something I'm missing?

-- Josh

> 
> Tony.
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