Read from a file that is continuously being updated

Question

I am writing some C code to process some data in a file, but I just learned that the file is going to be constantly added to (about 1 time/second, maybe faster). So I\'m wo

Answer 1

You can use select() with the fileno(file) as the file-descriptor. select will return either with a timeout (if you set a timeout) or when you can read from the file.