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Re^2: tracking transient data in memory by countdown timer
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 21, 2011 at 18:56 UTC
    No particular context, I'm thinking in abstracted terms, but, let's try this:

    Data comes in from another program, via a filehandle (could be a socket). The program could be a server, not necessarily a TCP one or UDP one, just a program that gets data.