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A C# implementation of the Tail -f command

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4 Dec 2010CPOL2 min read 21.4K   5  

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19 Dec 2010Ian Shlasko
Unless I'm misreading your code on CodePlex, it looks like your utility loads in the entire file every time it changes. That might be fine for tiny files, but it would be a huge performance hit for larger ones (a few megs, for example).Why not do it a bit more simply?using (FileStream str...

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