in reply to Open&manage 2 sockets at one time

use IO::Socket qw( ); my $sel = new IO::Select( $sock1, $sock2 ); while ( my @ready = $sel->can_read() ) { foreach my $sock (@ready) { if ($sock == $sock1) { ...do someththing... if (...done...) { $sel->remove( $sock1 ); } } elsif ($sock == $sock2) { ...do someththing... if (...done...) { $sel->remove( $sock2 ); } } } }

Don't use read or <$sock> in combination with select. Their buffering nature will interfere.

You might want to read into a buffer, because you're not guaranteed to get an entire message or no more than a message in each sysread.

sysread( $sock, $buf, 32*1024, length($buf) ) or do { $sel->remove( $sock ); next; }; while ( my ($msg) = $buf =~ s/^(...)// ) { process($msg); }

All together:

use IO::Socket qw( ); my $sel = new IO::Select(); my %clients; for my $sock ($sock1, $sock2) { $clients{$sock} = { buf => '', # ... }; $sel->add( $sock ); } while ( my @ready = $sel->can_read() ) { foreach my $sock (@ready) { my $client = $clients{$sock}; our $buf; local *buf = \( $client->{buf} ); sysread( $sock, $buf, 32*1024, length($buf) ) or do { $sel->remove( $sock ); delete $clients{$sock}; next; }; while ( my ($msg) = $buf =~ s/^(...)// ) { process($msg); } } }

Updade: Added tip on how to read socket.

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Re^2: Open&manage 2 sockets at one time
by motzi (Sexton) on Sep 22, 2008 at 21:56 UTC
    Ok, but i have a deal with irc bot on 2 servers in one time (i need it all at same script), its not about a daemon. Can your method be applied for my issue?

      I never said anything about daemons.

      And how is an IRC bot not a daemon?

        any daemon is like a server (i think :) ) and irc bot is an client of a server. just was thinking that your last code (with var $clients) is only for IO::Socket which in local port listening mode. (sry, my perl knowlege is still very low)