Hello Monks;
I am having a little problem running a TCP/IP server/client application and need your help. In my application, I am processing some information from a file and sending it across a socket. However, for each info I send, I need to get a response with in 10ms. Therefore, whenever I send the info, I need to start a timer. When the timer expires, I call the "recv" function to see if I have recieved a data string of certain format.
In the mean time if no data has been received, I do not want the recieve function to block until data is recieved. I will like to be able to resend previous info and wait another 10ms.

My problems are :
1. How do I get recv() to be non-blocking in Perl.
2. How do I get a timer to measure the 10ms wait period.

Thanks for your assistance and I highly appreciate every Monk input.

In reply to InterProcess Communication by gzayzay

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