It is unclear to me if you are listening to the port, or attempting to connect to one.
As a listening process, you can use fork() to launch child processes to handle individual connections. This is described well in O'Reilly's Advanced Perl Programming (p. 193 - Handling Multiple Clients).
In the same chapter, the authors go on to describe multiplexing using Select. This is useful if you are waiting on any one of a set of connections to occur, and then handle appropriately.
Can you provide more detail on why you don't want to wait on a connection? Is spawning of a child process not acceptable for some reason?
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Sorry for the ambiguity...
I want to make a connection to a remote host with me being the client.
The problem is that I need to handle other tasks while I wait for the connection to occur
(i.e. create socket, initiate connection, do something else, check connection status).
I don't want to be stuck waiting for connect() to return.
I know I could fork to do concurrent stuff but I'm just curious as to if it's possible.
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Yeh yeh, I also need to know this exact thing .... please answer, I'm well stuck!
Cheers,
-Be
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