Is my implementation of "tail -f" neat enough? I think so.

I don't know if sleep/poll cycles are the most efficient way of doing things here. You might want to try using select if you can.

... is the reopening of the current logfile done properly assuring no loss of data

I'm not sure.. imagine this scenario:

  1. Your process scans the logs.
  2. Your process sleeps.
  3. While you are sleeping, the server outputs the bad error lines.
  4. Still while you are sleeping, the logs get rotated.
  5. When you wake up, you'll start processing the new file and never see the error lines.

In reply to Re^3: File tracking by ehdonhon
in thread File tracking by r

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