in reply to File::Tail Issue

The interesting part, is that the file in question is not growing, and is not being rotated.

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Re (tilly) 2: File::Tail Issue
by tilly (Archbishop) on Apr 20, 2001 at 19:25 UTC
    In that case I suspect a logic in the "suspicious" code's test. In other words it sees no changes for a long time, then tries to check for change, thinks it sees one, and returns a few lines, waits more and repeats.

    Almost certainly a bug, report it to the module author and/or try to debug yourself. (Putting a debug statement in File::Tail to test when it enters that code will verify my guess, though it won't fix it.)