Following a file, or cloning tail

[Boudewijn Rempt]

I'm trying to write an application that follows the output of another
app, analyzes it, and serves it up as html. Kind of filtering tail,
really. Is there any accepted 'best' way of 'tailing' a file?

I thought about having two threads, one doing the tailing, one
doing the servering (instantiating new threads as needed), but I
can't even get the tailing right!

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