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file monitoring

2002-06-17T16:36:00-04:00

Thanks for the help, but i solved it in another weird way learned C and coded my own crapy bot (with threads) just for this function

Statistics: Posted by Guest — Mon Jun 17, 2002 4:36 pm

file monitoring

2002-06-16T07:29:00-04:00

You can do it 2 ways. You can either use a pipe instead of exec (read the 'open' command) and use non-blocking io on the pipe (see 'filevent').

Or you can write the whole thing in Tcl (use the 'file' command to monitor the access time, then just seek to the end and get the new data).

Statistics: Posted by stdragon — Sun Jun 16, 2002 7:29 am

file monitoring

2002-06-14T09:22:00-04:00

No.

Eggdrop is not threaded, and thus, it has to block/freeze to perform the action.

It all depends what the script/exec will be doing. As you maybe able to speed things up, without the use of tailf.

Statistics: Posted by ppslim — Fri Jun 14, 2002 9:22 am

file monitoring

2002-06-11T18:41:00-04:00

any other way then exec? that woun't lock it ?

[ This Message was edited by: woffer on 2002-06-11 16:42 ]

Statistics: Posted by Guest — Tue Jun 11, 2002 6:41 pm

file monitoring

2002-06-11T18:06:00-04:00

it would if you used exec tail -f, exec is a blocking function.

Statistics: Posted by Petersen — Tue Jun 11, 2002 6:06 pm

file monitoring

2002-06-11T16:50:00-04:00

i need a help with a script (duh!)
the script is supposed to open 2 files with "tailf -f" or some eggdrop/tcl built-in function, and check each line in a if,
now to the problem, woun't the bot freeze all it's other functions while checking the files?

Statistics: Posted by Guest — Tue Jun 11, 2002 4:50 pm