in reply to Re^2: IO::Select and sockets
in thread IO::Select and sockets

I think it depends whether you're connecting to a service, or creating a service and waiting for connections to it. If I need to do both at the same time, then I'd probably use select(), otherwise, I'll use a can_* method (or maybe I'm missing something and doing it inherently wrong?).

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Re^4: IO::Select and sockets
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 29, 2005 at 20:40 UTC

    Any servers that handles mutliple connections must

    • Wait to read incomming connections from the server socket.
    • Wait to read incomming requests from each client socket from which a request hasn't been obtained.
    • Wait to write reponses to each client socket from which a request has been obtained.
    • Wait for errors.

    All of these can occur at the same time, which is why can_* are insufficient, and select is desired on the server side.

     

    Any clients that handles mutliple connections must

    • Wait to write requests to every server socket to which a request has not been sent.
    • Wait to read incomming responses from each server socket to which a request has been sent.
    • Wait for errors.

    All of these can occur at the same time, which is why can_* are insufficient, and select is desired on the client side.

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