Re: Bidirectional Socket, Blocking

You cannot send to a socket whilst the same end that you are trying to send to is in a receive state. Even if the receive is being done on a dup() of the socket in a fork or thread.

Most of the time, that isn't a problem because comms protocols tend to be a conversation where one end speaks and the other replies. If you need to be able to initiate sends from both ends, then your reads will need to be non-blocking.

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Re^2: Bidirectional Socket, Blocking by DanielPHuber (Initiate) on Oct 16, 2012 at 13:33 UTC
Hi Uk, thank's for the replay. I tried all sort of ways using unblocking reads, but to no avail. I could not get a real satisfactory bidirectional communication. If you know an example where this works, I would be gratful. I now resort to a rather clumsy way, by opening two ports, using one to send, the other to receive. This works, but it does not seem to be too clever and if there is a better way, I am happy to engulf it. cheers, Daniel	[reply]
Re^3: Bidirectional Socket, Blocking by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Oct 16, 2012 at 13:49 UTC
I tried all sort of ways using unblocking reads, but to no avail. If you posted one of your attempts, we may be able to sort that out for you. If you know an example where this works, The classic method of performing non-blocking IO is to use select. For examples, scan a few of these hits site:perlmonks.org IO::Socket IO::Select. I now resort to a rather clumsy way, by opening two ports, using one to send, the other to receive. This works, but it does not seem to be too clever If it is good enough for the FTP-family of protocols, it is good enough for me. With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday' Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice. RIP Neil Armstrong	[reply]
Re^4: Bidirectional Socket, Blocking by DanielPHuber (Initiate) on Oct 16, 2012 at 17:13 UTC
Hi Neil, not even the examples from: http://www.perlmonks.org/bare/?node_id=437028 work. Could it be that it has something to do with Windows? cheers, Daniel	[reply]