I'm looking for a loopback socket, which will work on a win32 system.

I'd be happy to find something in the commonly installed modules or on CPAN, but I'm willing to write a subclass if I can get a few pointers.

Basically, I need an object that behaves like a socket (INET variety if it matters). It needs to play nice with IO::Select, especially when it has data. The magic that I need is that I'd like to sysread() everything that I syswrite() or print() to it.

I tried to look up something like this, but came up empty. I tried using a filehandle opened to an in-memory string, but it didn't work with sysread() and was not select()able. I also tried pipe()'d IO::Handles, but they were not select()able (or pipes are broken on win32, not sure which).

Does anyone know where I could find a module that implements such an object? Or, alternatively, a straightforward way to write my own?

Thanks,
-dpmott

In reply to Looking for a loopback socket for win32 by dpmott

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