Esteemed monks,

As my Win32/Perl/Tk monster continues to grow I find I have as many as FOUR POP3 servers being checked periodically by the programme. On top of this I am checking Skype for incoming calls and a PSTN modem for caller-ID information. So my poor little main event loop is getting somewhat bogged down - particularly as the POP3 processes are all blocking. So I figure I need to shed some load.

After reading through the monastery and searching the Web it would seem that named pipes through Win32::Pipe would be the most reliable way to go to allow the children to tell mama what is happening (usually - we have read emails and added records to the database, please update your action tables).

Apart form teh amterial in Dave Roth's book (WIN32 Perl Programming) does anyone know of useful tutorials or sample code anywhere?

As always, any suggestions would be appreciated

jdtoronto

In reply to Named pipes on Win32 by jdtoronto

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