Re: poll() on regular files

[Frank Thieme <frank@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 04 February 2008, Volker wrote:
> I'm trying to watch a regular file for modification i.e. added data.
>
> I'm using poll() on the fd, but it triggers over and over once i have read
> to the end of the file.
> poll() immediately returns POLLIN but there are 0 bytes to read from the
> fd.

What about inotify? 

Bye..Frank


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