I'm not sure that Net::IRC, resp. IO::Select (which is what Net::IRC uses) work well with tie'd filehandles. A possibly working approach could be to actually use the unix tail command and to read from that filehandle:

open my $log, "-|", 'tail', '-f', $logfile
    or die "Couldn't read logfile '$logfile': $!";

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That way you get a real OS-file handle on which the mechanisms used by IO::Select might work better.

Other than that, maybe you want to look into the other Event mechanisms to handle multiple filehandles, or even POE, although I'm not sure if POE is a solution.

In reply to Re^3: Net::IRC and File::Tail by Corion
in thread Net::IRC and File::Tail by naez

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