Re: [Vala] Reading last n lines from file

[Reid Thompson <jreidthompson nc rr com>]

On Wed, 2015-10-07 at 10:16 -0400, Serge Hooge wrote:

> Hello, folks.
>
> I am currently writing a small program with Vala/ncurses and I have
> suddenly found the need to read last n lines of a constantly changing
> file for display in an ncurses window.
>
> What would be the easiest way to go about it in Vala?
> It doesn't look like GIO is an option without a giant data stream
> kludge, but I kind of need it to create and delete some files along the
> way.
>
> Cheers,
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maybe... implement an equivalent to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17877025/
reading-last-n-lines-from-file-in-c-c

based on

http://references.valadoc.org/#!api=glib-2.0/GLib.FileStream.seek