in reply to Win32::Pipe, how to tell if the other side went away?

I'm shooting in the dark here, but have you tried using the GetInfo() method?

According to the module's documentation:
GetInfo()

Retrieves an array of information about the pipe:

Element 0:     State of Pipe
Element 1:     Number of instances the pipe has
Element 2:     Name of user connected as the client
Element 3:     Max number of bytes collected before the pipe sends the
+ data
Element 4:     Max amount of time before data is sent

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I guess Element 0 there should provide something useful. Other than this, I can't provide any further help, sorry.

Just a side note, but I never really got it why Roth Consulting's modules aren't on the CPAN.


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Re^2: Win32::Pipe, how to tell if the other side went away?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Feb 15, 2006 at 00:46 UTC

    Unfortunately, that 'state' field is bit encoded and can indicate blocking/non-blocking, and byte/message mode which doesn't help unless you can enable non-blocking mode and I don't think that module exposes that to Perl.

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