Hi,
the day has come that my problems became stronger than the concentration of caffeine in my blood, and so I desperately need you help, fellow monks.

Here's the situation: There's a little, nifty (irc) bot, written entirely in perl built upon Net::IRC. Now I was asked to write a plugin for this bot to provide some statistics via an HTTP-connection. So I went to CPAN, found HTTP::Daemon and everything was fine, until I realized that my bot wasn't joining any channels anymore. Now, what happened? The process got stuck in an accept () call. "No problem" was my first though, "a simple fork() and that's it..".. Yeah. that would have been nice, if there wasn't this little problem: How should I get up-to-date information from the main process to generate my statistics?

I thought about using SIGIO for accepting connections as they come, but hardly found any perl-related documentation on this..

I have to admit that I'm not doing this socket-thing very often, so it might be that the solution is darn simple and I'm an idiot, but I just don't see it right now..

Thanks you very much for your patience,
Regards, octo

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In reply to Nonblocking Networking by flocto

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