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From: rich@eddie.MIT.EDU (Richard Caloggero)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Tail
Keywords: Tail, Wait, Length
Message-ID: <11701@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: 9 May 89 15:05:04 GMT
Organization: MIT EE/CS Computer Facility, Cambridge, MA
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     How is "tail -1f" implemented?  Is there an IOCTL or FCNTRL
parameter which allows one to wait for some sort of status event (like
size change), or does tail just keep checking and sleeping?
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