Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: tail -f
Message-ID: <686@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 88 18:20:02 GMT
References: <412@fedeva.UUCP> <10650037@hpisod2.HP.COM> <876@ubu.warwick.UUCP>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >Not necessarily - select(2) is a Berkeleyism, I believe, so code written
 >using it is not portable to older Unices - Vanilla V7, for instance.
 >I must agree that it would be a far more elegant solution, though.
 >I am surprised that it hasn't been re-written for Berkeley systems.

I'm not at all surprised, since even on a Berkeley system you can't use
"select()" to wait for somebody to write something to a regular file.