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SubjectRe: Named pipes - slightly broken in new kernels
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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