Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: tail -f
Message-ID: <677@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 88 23:17:42 GMT
References: <412@fedeva.UUCP> <10650037@hpisod2.HP.COM>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>I suppose it could use select(2)...

You suppose incorrectly.  I know of no UNIX system where "select" will
permit you to wait for a regular file (as in S_IFREG) file to be
modified....