Apologies in advance for the tangential answer, but since I've done something very similar using Mojolicious I thought I'd show you how I did it there. I'll take a look at your code and see if I can figure out what's wrong with it in the meantime.

The controller:

package TailStream::Controller::Tail;
use Mojo::Base 'Mojolicious::Controller';
use Mojo::Util qw(url_unescape);

sub stream_tail {
    my $self             = shift;
    my $encoded_filename = $self->stash('filename');

    $self->inactivity_timeout(3600);

    my $filename = url_unescape $encoded_filename;
    die "Couldn't open $filename" unless -e -r -f $filename;

    my $pid = open my $fh, '-|', 'tail', '-n', '+1', '-F', $filename;
    die "Couldn't spawn: $!" unless defined $pid;

    my $stream = Mojo::IOLoop::Stream->new($fh);
    my $sid    = Mojo::IOLoop->stream($stream);
    $self->on( finish => sub { Mojo::IOLoop->remove($sid) } );

    $stream->on( read => sub { $self->send( { text => pop } ) } );
    $stream->on( close => sub { kill KILL => $pid; close $fh } );
    $stream->timeout(0);
    $stream->start;
}

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And the application:

package TailStream;

use Mojo::Base 'Mojolicious';

sub startup {
    my $self = shift;

    my $r = $self->routes;

    $r->websocket('/tail_ws/*filename')->to('tail#stream_tail');
}

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In reply to Re: tail file and websocket stream by jimpudar
in thread tail file and websocket stream by leostereo

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