How to watch and read a file that another process is appending to?

[Marc Lehmann]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 08:06:39PM +0200, Carlo Wood <carlo at alinoe.com> wrote:
> 
> can you please answer this question that I posted on
> Stack Overflow: 

Sure. I have tried to give  abit of background to help in udnerstanding these
rather difficult problems, hope it helps!

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