This module tries to mimic the 'tail -f' behaviour
using Event.
It detects file deletion, rename, rotation providing a simple way to keep
track of files like log files.
I wrote this for use with my project cmc/cmcd, however I have seem many
people looking for an implementation like this that wouldn't BLOCK.
Note that test.pl is usuless. for a sample code see demo/tail.pl.
It will read the file read_file until a timeout happens. You
can open another shell and "echo text >> demo/read_file" to see it working.
the tail watcher is a fake watcher in terms of Event watchers. It
tries to mimics some characteriscs from the real Event watchers, but
just the ones covered in the Event::File::tail pod file.
Please refer to Event::File::tail and Event::File pod/man pages.
Have fun,
Raul Dias <raul@dias.com.br>