Tailing a log file?

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 11:46:56AM -0700, Evan Klitzke wrote:
> I checked the source code for tail and they actually poll the file by
> using fstat and sleep to check for changes in the file size. This
> didn't seem right so I thought about it more and realized I ought to
> be using inotify. So I guess I answered my own question.

I've not thought about it much, but how about using Twisted?
Something like the LineReceiver class seems appropriate
here.

http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/api/twisted.protocols.basic.LineReceiver.html

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