Like I said.....By a newbie :)

I didn't use IO::Select because I couldn't find any useful examples for it. Since I really don't know what I'm doing I had to go by what I could find examples for.

Thanks for the $socket->close(). Again with little docs and based on examples I found I didn't even know I could do it that way.

I indent my code as I program, It makes for easy readibility (I use a 4 space tab)...Sorry that it screwed up so much on the page.

My "paranoid" client is a scaled down uncleaned version. I had 3 conditions but removed one and I also feel that including an extra (even if impossible) else statement is good for debugging.

I've got lots to learn about IPC. I don't think I understand it too well. I was using some server code found on the site and when it forked it seemed to lose the connection or something. Someone suggested putting a sleep(5) line in and that seemed to fix it, but I wasn't satified with that kind of a fix. I wanted to see if I could get the processes to talk to each other so they could confirm having started before closing any connections. I think I accomplished that, but then again I don't really know much about IPC.

(That comment about IO:Handle and the thousands of lines is from a search: perlipc example....I just didn't take it out.)

:) Thanks for the comments

In reply to Re: Re: Newbies TCP Networking by Anonymous Monk
in thread Newbies TCP Networking by otijim

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