d'oh. I'd ass-u-me d that it blocked for the full length of the read. I just hacked in this for the read subroutine...
my $total_bytes_to_read;
sysread $sock, $total_bytes_to_read, 20;
my $total_bytes_read = 0;
my $read_string = '';
while ($total_bytes_read < $total_bytes_to_read) {
my $buffer;
my $bytes_read = sysread $sock, $buffer, ($total_bytes_to_read
+ - $total_bytes_read);
$total_bytes_read += $bytes_read;
$read_string .= $buffer;
}
$total_bytes_to_read == $total_bytes_read
or die("Tried to read $total_bytes_to_read bits but only got $to
+tal_bytes_read bits\n");
return $read_string;
and have been unable to reproduce the error. Thank you! ++
PS: I will abstract the loop, as I realise the other sysread here could suffer the same problem
Update: Just seen your code. I shall be nicking that :)
Update2: Worked a treat with an extra curly bracket and two semi-colons :)
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