File IO with select?

[Greg Ewing]

Jared Lee Peterson wrote:
> 
> I am trying to syncronize two clients that are accessing the same file.
> I am trying to use
> select() for this but I am not having much luck.

select() is useless for that, because reading from an
ordinary file never blocks, so select() will always
return immediately.

On unix, the only portable way is to periodically
poll the file to see if it has grown. I gather that
there is another way on Windows, but I don't know
any details.

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