Can someone please give me some pointers or links for writing a simple client that i want to use for testing to put a server through its paces.(on windows, which means no IO::Multiplex or IO::Event).
The easiest has been using fork under cygperl but then that rules out the use of a debugger as well as making it hard to add messages to the outgoing queue in the other process.
I tried something crude like this as well but after a couple of writes it never reaches the write sub again even with no reads coming in. 

sub read_incoming
{
    while (defined sysread $_[0],$header,9,0) # Get header for the cor
+rect body length to call next;
    {
    if($header =~ m/([A-Z]{4})0+(\d{5})/)
        {
            my $messagetype = $1;
            sysread $_[0],$body,$2,0;#receive ng
        }
    }
}

sub write_outgoing
{
    if(defined(my $line = shift(@g_queue)))
    {
        syswrite $_[0] ,$line;
    }
}

while(1)
{
    ($r_ready, $w_ready) =
    IO::Select->select($read_set, $write_set, undef, $timeout);

    foreach my $rhandle (@$r_ready)    #handle reads
    {
        read_incoming $rhandle;
    }

    foreach my $whandle(@$w_ready)     #handle writes
    {
        write_outgoing $whandle;
    }
}

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I just need it to tbe async and recieve and send messages in no particular order. Thanks for any help.

Cheers

In reply to trying to write simple sockets client on Windows by Anonymous Monk

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