Re: GIOChannel Watch

[Joshua N Pritikin <vishnu pobox com>]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 12:49:46AM -0700, Burra wrote:
> How do I keep the g_io_watch from being called when there is no new data,
> I know it's not suppose to get called when there is no data, but my app
> runs at 99% cpu as the io_watch func gets called.
>
> I am just tailing a log file... code is below... any help is much
> appriciated.

If you look at the source code for tail then you will see that tail
stat's the size of the file every few milliseconds.  The select/poll
system calls do not offer the behavior you desire.  You must stat
the log file to see whether new data is available.

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