Implementation of “tail -f” in PHP

This is a small algorithm to implement a functionality similar to “tail -f” in PHP. The script is able watch a file in real time and do something everytime a new line is added (for example, a log file). It doesn’t implement the “tail” functionnality however (outputing only the end of the file) and instead starts processing the file from the beginning.

$file = @ fopen($filename, 'r');
$pos = 0; 

while (true) {
	fseek($file, $pos);
	while ($line = fgets($file)) {
		// do something with $line
	}
	$pos = ftell($file);
	sleep(1);
}
fclose($file);