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The File::Tail module is designed for reading files which are
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continously appended to (the name comes from the tail -f directive).
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Usually such files are logfiles of some description.
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The module tries hard not to busy wait on the file, dynamically
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calculating how long it should wait before it pays to try reading
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the file again.
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The module should handle normal log truncations ("close; move; open"
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or "cat /dev/null >file") transparently, without losing any input.
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