advice for tailing a file

Scott Wiersdorf scott at ipartner.net
Mon Dec 14 23:58:45 CET 2015


On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 05:29:30PM -0500, Vikas N Kumar wrote:
> For a platform independent way, AnyEvent based I/O read events are the
> best.

<snip>

> The best way to be platform agnostic is to let the OS handle the I/O
> portion and call your event handler. This takes care of any latencies
> that you will experience on different systems.

Back to my original question: how? I don't know how to get a "file
append" event in an OS-agnostic way. Do you?

Scott
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