I am reading a file in linux which is a log file that keeps on updating weather the file has changed and output it to the webpage. i do it using php inotify but my problem is that it is blocking.

How can i make php inotify non-blocking so i can do other stuff while it is monitoring the text file?.

<?php

$fd = inotify_init();


$watch_descriptor = inotify_add_watch($fd, '/tmp/temp.txt', IN_MODIFY);


touch('/tmp/temp.txt');


    $events = inotify_read($fd);

    $contents = file_get_contents('/tmp/temp.txt');
    echo $contents;


inotify_rm_watch($fd, $watch_descriptor);
fclose($fd)

?>

Or can i do this in java?..Thanks.