Re^2: IO::Handle read error description?

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Re^3: IO::Handle read error description? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 28, 2010 at 17:56 UTC
No. The whole point of using `select` is to let us know when reading from the socket won't block and when writing to the socket won't block. Unfortunately, it doesn't tell us how much we can write to it without blocking. We only know that we can write one byte without blocking. Maybe non-blocking sockets would help in the writing half. Ideally, there would be a system call that tells us how much we can write without writing. I don't know if there is one.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: IO::Handle read error description? by vsespb (Chaplain) on Apr 28, 2010 at 18:56 UTC
I was thinking sysread(... 4096 ... will block until read all 4096 bytes...	[reply]
Re^5: IO::Handle read error description? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 28, 2010 at 19:44 UTC
It will return whatever bytes are available. `$ perl -e'$\|=1; print "a"; print "b"; sleep 1; print "c"' \| \ perl -le'print "[$buf]" while sysread(STDIN, $buf="", 4096);' [ab] [c]` [download]	[reply] [d/l]