Hi all wise Monks!

I need some help from your church in relation to socket data manipulation.

I've made a deamon that accept conections always from the same machine (HOST1), processes the data recieved and send SNMP traps to another machine (HOST2).

The problem is that I wrote it assuming that each time HOST1 has something to send it will connect send data and disconnect, but yesterday I learned we shouldn't make that kind of assumptions...

while (defined(my $line = <$NA_Conn>)) {
  $input.=$line;
}
#processing the $input here...

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So, HOST1 never disconects, it connects to my deamon and whenever it has data to send it send's... But this way the $input is never processed.

What is the best way to process the input in 'real time'?

TIP: I need to send a trap each time I get a complete 'packet' with start and end flags: #S#\n\r<lines of data here >\n\r#E#

Threads? Multiprocess? Something simpler and effective?

PS: I would prefer stability to velocity.

Thanks in advance, AMEN Monks!

In reply to Real-time socket data processing by psyk0tic

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