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I'm trying to monitorize changes in a log file, but I don't figure out how to do it. I wish to do something similar to select() function used to detect changes in a socket, but I don't fin the way to do it, I mean, some c++ function that keeps idle until the selected file changes, and then returns a result showing the change that has happened.
As far as I know, FAM & inotify are both command line apps, so are not suitable in this case. I ned to do this monitorization from a c++ app, so I'm looking for a syscall (similar to select()) to detect changes in a log file.
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