kqueue alternative?

[Tony Finch]

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.

Tony.
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