Re^9: Does IO::Select work? Anywhere?

[zentara]

Ok, I will put my mind to it. I followed your instructions and yes, it does as you say block. My first thought is isn't it clever the way the MIComplex designed our socket connections, so that they can jam any socket based system they want? ;-)

Even though you denigrated the earlier good professor's code of sysreading 1 byte at a time, in Re^4: Does IO::Select work? Anywhere?

while ($c ne "\n" && ! $endoffile) {
    if (sysread($filehandle, $c, 1) > 0) {
        $retstr = $retstr . $c;
    }
    else {
        $endoffile=1;
    }
    }

maybe therin lies your answer?

The intuitive side of my brain points you to IPC3 buffer limit problem, where you can use syscntl statements. Merlyn says it's effective, except for one case. :-) So I figure, what are the odds? The odds that the last buffer is exactly 4k? 1 in 4k ? Pretty good odds. :-) But then again, I don't fly spaceships either. :)

P.S. I tried your hanging script on the server in Glib based forking server with root messaging and the server handled it just fine. It continued reading messages from clients, and accepted new clients. Sometimes, you just have to learn to use modules instead of reinventing the conveyor belt.

[BrowserUk]

Even though you denigrated the earlier good professor's code of sysreading 1 byte at a time, in Re^4: Does IO::Select work? Anywhere? maybe therin lies your answer?

No, It doesn't. Plug that into your server and replace the call to perl's readline with a call to that -- and exactly the same thing will happen. Which is why I denigrated it.

If you're happy with not understanding why glib works, that's your call.

[zentara]

if you're happy with not understanding why glib works, that's your call.

Oh I don't understand how most modules do what they actually do, thats why I use them. For what it's worth, the code you are probably looking for is in gio/gsocket.c

For me to guess at how to do it with plain select, I think you need to figure out how to access the socket's errno. See getting errno. From Perl you probably need to use sysctl.ph

P.S. Glib is not the only lib out there, many prefer AnyEvent. Have you looked at how AnyEvent works against your socket blocker program?