Re^2: Nonblocking sockets on Win32

Ahh, thnx, that did it...with one tiny change: I had to explicitly clear $! before the call; apparently, ioctl() isn't clearing it on its own.

I had tried a similar recommendation which said the param value had to be a ref:

$nonblock = 1;
ioctl($sock, POSIX_FIONBIO, \$nonblock); # !!WRONG
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but that would only set nonblock, but couldn't set back to blocking.

And an FYI: this worked with a IO::Socket::INET handle.

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Re^3: Nonblocking sockets on Win32 by rob_au (Abbot) on Nov 29, 2005 at 10:29 UTC
This node is also particular informative - Re: (to be updated) (tye)Re: Non blocking socket open - I used some of the code therein to build a cross-platform, non-blocking network event engine which has proven to be particularly robust since deployment. `perl -le "print unpack'N', pack'B32', '00000000000000000000001000000000'"`	[reply]
Re^4: Nonblocking sockets on Win32 by renodino (Curate) on Nov 29, 2005 at 16:04 UTC
Thnx, I saw that prior to ikegami's pointer, but some of the comments scared em off. Now that I grok the ioctl() bit, the other part now makes more sense. The delta is the nonblocking connect() which (hopefully) I won't need anytime soon. (tho I may have a use for it in another app for which some users have griped about wanting a smaller timeout when the peer isn't available.)	[reply]