Implement “tail -f” in C++

Question

I want to create a small code in C++ with the same functionality as \"tail-f\": watch for new lines in a text file and show them in the standard output.

The idea is

Answer 1

I needed to implement this too, I just wrote a quick hack in standard C++. The hack searches for the last 0x0A (linefeed character) in a file and outputs all data following that linefeed when the last linefeed value becomes a larger value. The code is here:

#include 
#include 
#include 

using namespace std;


int find_last_linefeed(ifstream &infile) {

  infile.seekg(0,ios::end);
  int filesize = infile.tellg();

  for(int n=1;n last_position) {
      infile.seekg(position,ios::beg);
      string in;
      infile >> in;
      cout << in << endl;
    }
    last_position=position;

    sleep(1);
  }

}