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UDP Server doesn't receive before newline

by nitin1704 (Sexton)
on Dec 04, 2012 at 03:54 UTC ( [id://1006987]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

nitin1704 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

So I made a simple UDP client and server using IO::Socket. The code is given below. The problem is that the server prints the message from client only when it ends with a newline. Is there a way to change this? I tried disabling output buffering on the client side, but that didn't work.

client.pl

use IO::Socket; use strict; use warnings; my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new( Proto => 'udp', PeerPort => 23456, PeerAddr => '10.254.83.40', ) or die "Could not create socket: $!\n"; select($sock); $|=1; $sock->send("message from client") or die "Send error: $!\n";

server.pl

use IO::Socket; use strict; use warnings; my $server = IO::Socket::INET->new(LocalPort => 23456, Proto => 'udp') or die "Couldn't be a udp server on port 23456 +: $@\n"; my $MAX_TO_READ = 1024; my $datagram = ''; while($server->recv($datagram, $MAX_TO_READ)){ print $datagram; }

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Re: UDP Server doesn't receive before newline
by choroba (Cardinal) on Dec 04, 2012 at 09:10 UTC
Re: UDP Server doesn't receive before newline
by zwon (Abbot) on Dec 05, 2012 at 02:17 UTC

    UDP doesn't have buffering. Buffering happens on the server side -- stdio library buffers output. Try:

    print "$datagram\n";
      That worked. Thanks! Why doesn't the stdio library buffer output like this when I do a normal print statement (instead of doing it like this in a socket-recv() scenario)?
        Socket is irrelevant. Try:
        perl -e'while(1) { print "Datagram"; sleep 1; }'
        check man stdio for your system. Mine (GNU/Linux) says:
        Output streams that refer to terminal devices are always line buffered by default; pending output to such streams is written automatically whenever an input stream that refers to a terminal device is read. In cases where a large amount of computation is done after printing part of a line on an output terminal, it is necessary to fflush(3) the standard output before going off and computing so that the output will appear.

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