I voted down this post because you (however unintentionally) insulted the original poster and made him feel that he'd wasted our time in asking it.

In addition, your post is confusing, and advocates an experimental feature that probably won't exist as is in the next version of Perl, besides being unstable and definitely not recommended.

I'm not sure what the POSIX module has to do with the supplicant's request, and your post is hard to read. Adding some paragraph tags would help that.

The only real reason for my -- is the first. I don't think any honest question (especially a good, detailed one like above) deserves to be called a waste of database space. Unintentional, probably, but it's not the sort of phrasing I want to see continue in the monastery.

I hope this explanation is of benefit to you.

In reply to RE: Re: more fun with non-blocking I/O.. by chromatic
in thread more fun with non-blocking I/O.. by reyjrar

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