I don't know why you think that would make any difference.

  1. The description of "how to use ioctl properly" is moot.

    You'll notice that he doesn't say that using the oft-described method of setting non-blocking doesn't work, only that it works "for the wrong reasons".

    That's okay. Just so long as it works!

    His "proper way" is no such thing. It is at best a different way of working around the fact that the implementation of ioctl is broken.

    There is no way that Perl programmer's should be messing around with pointers. pack 'p' (or is it pack 'P') is even more badly documented than ioctl and far, far too easy to get wrong and cause crashes.

    The proper way would be to fix ioctl.

  2. Those examples do not use Tk fileevents. Tk fileevents don't work on Windows. Ergo: The OPs approach will not work on Windows.

    The limitation is in the Windows Tk implementation. Not Perl, nor Windows.

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The start of some sanity?

In reply to Re^5: Client/Server sockets with TK on Win32 by BrowserUk
in thread Client/Server sockets with TK on Win32 by merseyred

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