Problem with tailing textfile in Windows

[Zoro-6191]

Problem with tailing textfile in Windows

[lucagrulla]

Hey,

I can't see anything wrong.

It's probably caused by fs.watch implementation, the nodejs core function used by tail, that doesn't have 100% compatibility across different OSes:
https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v14.x/docs/api/fs.html#fs_caveats

On Windows, you could try to use WatchFile instead of watch, by useWatchFile as a constructor parameter:
https://github.com/lucagrulla/node-tail#constructor-parameters

I hope it helps.

[Zoro-6191]

thanks for fast response
my program will mostly be running on linux, so its fine
I'll try switching to watchFile() for windows use, although it would be good if you perfected the method from your end since I'm not really experienced in the thing

[addlistener]

Do you think we need to mention fs.watchFile is actually polling the file and has a default interval of 5007ms? Cost me another 20min to figure this out lol.