Re: Fw: select(), EOF...

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams (ignacio@openservices.net)
Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:00:51 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Carlos Fernández Sanz wrote:

> How come the process is never runnable unless there's new data in the file?
> If it was opening and closing the file continously it would be using lots of
> CPU, while it's 0 if there's no data coming.

It sleep()s between close() and open().

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams  <ignacio@openservices.net>

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