Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Mar 1996 15:21:42 +0100 (MET) | From | Ronald Wahl <> | Subject | Re: Named pipes - slightly broken in new kernels |
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On Thu, 28 Mar 1996, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Mar 1996, Ronald Wahl wrote: > > > > > > > btw, is there a way on Linux to have a blocking read at the end of file? > > > > IMHO tail -f do this - look at the sources. > > well ... mine doesnt. "strace -f test" does the following (test is an > ordinary ext2fs file): > [...]
Hmm just tried strace and you are right - but it checks only every second. This is also the reason for the strange disk activity I have.
ron
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