SUMMARY - trap on input to a file

From: Stuart Whitby (swhitby@legato.com)
Date: Thu Aug 10 2000 - 05:22:26 CDT


Thanks to:

Thomas Knox
Craig McLean
Sanjiv K. Bhatia
Denise Naomi Ishikawa
Bruce R. Zimmer
Ravi Channavajhala

for their answers. Ideas included using fstat() in C to continually
check the file, sending output to stderr (no can do - it's built
into the binary and I'd still need to set a constant watch),
modifying the program that's generating the message (no can do -
don't have access to them). But the winners, for us scripting guys,
are:

swatch, which is freely available and already set up to do this
stuff, and changing the output file to a named pipe (mknod <file> p).
Using the named pipe is the method I've gone for, mostly because I
received that response first (it also saves me time learning how to
configure swatch - another bonus). I can now read from that pipe and
act on the input as it is received.

One possible problem with this approach though, as highlighted by
Bruce Zimmer - if the pipe fills up, the application writing to it
may hang.

Cheers,

Stuart Whitby.

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