Hi monks. Can any Perl networking gurus help me out here?

I'm trying to do non-blocking network IO in Perl.

I need to be able to create a few sockets and try to connect each one in a non-blocking way. Each connect attempt will then be checked periodically, and the sockets that get connected successfully will be added to a list. I then need to periodically select() the connected sockets from the list to check for readability and writability, and do non-blocking reads and non-blocking writes to each socket as needed.

My questions are as follows:

• Is this possible using only IO::Socket::*, ideally the 2.0+ versions? The documentation wasn't completely helpful in this regard. It kinda sorta suggested so, but nodes I found here suggested otherwise.
• If it is possible, is it portable? Will it work on Linux, Solaris, Windows, MacOS, etc.?
• If it's not, what are my alternatives? POE isn't an option, so do I need to get down and write the lower-level Socket.pm code myself, and if so, can someone point me towards any examples?

Any replies are greatly appreciated.

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