Greetings,

I have a program that accepts socket connections with IO::Socket (or rather its subclass HTTP::Daemon). Because this program is also checking for user input, I'm using a timeout on the accept call. But it appears that the minimum timeout is 1 second. In the interest of responsiveness to picky users, I'd like to make it shorter if I could (maybe 0.25 or 0.5 sec). Is there a way to do this, or some creative workaround I could employ instead? My current code looks roughly like: 

my $d = HTTP::Daemon->new (
    LocalAddr => 'localhost',
    LocalPort => 1244 ) 
      or die;
$d->timeout(1);
MAIN_LOOP:  while (1) {
    my $c = $d->accept;
    unless (defined $c) {
        do_other_stuff();
        next MAIN_LOOP;
    }
    process_request($c);
}

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I'm running on Win32 ActivePerl 5.8.6 in case it matters.

Update: I am on crack. saintmike is correct. I don't know why I thought otherwise (or why I didn't retest one last time). saintmike++.

In reply to short (<1sec) timeout on IO::Socket by Errto

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