Re: IO::Select on an IO::Pipe not doing anything

Select has never worked on pipes in win32, as far as I know. The os simply doesn't have a way to select except with sockets.

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Re^2: IO::Select on an IO::Pipe not doing anything by monarch (Priest) on Sep 23, 2005 at 05:10 UTC
Great idea, tried the following on WinXP and it worked: Read more... (2 kB) Outputs: `C:\Temp>perl -w deleteme.pl Created local TCP socket on port 1861 Parent live Child live Handles: 1, 1 ready [r] [d:HELLO!:d] [W] Handles: 1, undef ready [b] Handles: 1, undef ready [b] Handles: 1, undef ready [b] Handles: 1, 1 ready [r] [d:HELLO!:d] [W]` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^2: IO::Select on an IO::Pipe not doing anything
by monarch (Priest) on Sep 23, 2005 at 05:10 UTC

Read more... (2 kB)

Outputs:

C:\Temp>perl -w deleteme.pl
Created local TCP socket on port 1861
Parent live
Child live
Handles: 1, 1 ready
[r]
[d:HELLO!:d]
[W]
Handles: 1, undef ready
[b]
Handles: 1, undef ready
[b]
Handles: 1, undef ready
[b]
Handles: 1, 1 ready
[r]
[d:HELLO!:d]
[W]
[download]

[reply]
[d/l]
[select]