RE: tail a file (win)

Behalf Of david brochu jr
I wrote a script to monitor ping activity and output it to a
log file. I am using windows and want to have another script
constantly check the latest entry to see if Request timed out
is seen. Is there a way to "tail" a file much like I would in
Unix so I can just see the latest entry and move from there?

The method I would use that is not RAM/CPU intensive would be to create a
memory-mapped file, take the size of the file, and increment your pointer to
file_length - tail_size.

The Windows API functions to look at are:
CreateFile
CreateFileMapping
MapViewOfFile

I'm sorry, but I'm not a ctypes guru so can't tell you how you would
accomplish this in python. (The C(++) code is fairly straightforward,
however).

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Regards,
Ryan Ginstrom

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