Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Mar 1996 14:20:34 +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: > > > I do the following: syslog writes in a file and a tail -f reads from this > > file and write the contents to the pipe. This works very well. > > 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.
> Pipes are not really files, they dont buffer. And "tail -f" polls the end > of the file, which isnt very effective IMHO.
My processor is idle also with a running tail -f.
ron
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