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in thread Does IO::Select work? Anywhere?

Even though you denigrated the earlier good professor's code of sysreading 1 byte at a time, in Re^4: Does IO::Select work? Anywhere? maybe therin lies your answer?

No, It doesn't. Plug that into your server and replace the call to perl's readline with a call to that -- and exactly the same thing will happen. Which is why I denigrated it.

If you're happy with not understanding why glib works, that's your call.

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Re^11: Does IO::Select work? Anywhere?
by zentara (Cardinal) on Oct 24, 2012 at 11:15 UTC
    if you're happy with not understanding why glib works, that's your call.

    Oh I don't understand how most modules do what they actually do, thats why I use them. For what it's worth, the code you are probably looking for is in gio/gsocket.c

    For me to guess at how to do it with plain select, I think you need to figure out how to access the socket's errno. See getting errno. From Perl you probably need to use sysctl.ph

    P.S. Glib is not the only lib out there, many prefer AnyEvent. Have you looked at how AnyEvent works against your socket blocker program?

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