Hi,

I have a problem with my Perl server. Clients connect and send command terminated by a newline. The server uses IO::Select's can_read to determine if there's any data to read. If so, it reads all data up to the first newline.

The problem is when a client sends two or more commands at once. The server reads the first command, but after that can_read returns false although there is still data available. Why is can_read returning false when I only read a part of the total data (one command at a time)?

More info: it's a Linux machine, the perl server uses IO::Socket. Reading is done byte for byte, because commands can have different end characters (e.g. newline, ETX etc.)

Thanks for any help,

Marcel

In reply to IO::Select can_read and windowing by Marcello

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